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- proper noun biblical A
tower erected at Babel by the descendants ofNoah 's son Ham to reach the sky, and whose completionGod thwarted by making the workers speak differentlanguages so that they were unable to understand one another. - noun figuratively A
visionary andimpractical plan . - noun Alternative spelling of
tower of Babel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another
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Knowing his proclivity for following energy flows the way normal tourists might follow the sun, I asked him if he might offer TomDispatch readers periodic "postcards" from the energy heartlands of the planet and what he calls the Tower of Babel of "nations, mercenary peoples, terrorists, dictatorships, tribes, nomad mafias, and religious outfits" that are in conflict upon them.
TomDispatch 2009
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Implicit in the story of the Tower of Babel is the story of Pentecost . . .
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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The Tower of Babel was a cruel joke ……………….funny though.
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Implicit in the story of the Tower of Babel is the story of Pentecost . . .
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Vico confronted a problem about understanding the human past that is perennial and that is certainly not confined to Christian believers, even if the story of the Fall and of the Tower of Babel is the most striking dramatization of the problem.
Vico for Now Hampshire, Stuart 1994
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When they are excited -- and in the bull-ring they are always wild with excitement -- they wax very noisy indeed, and, as they all talk, and no one listens to what any one else is saying, the green sward, on which the combat is to take place, speedily becomes a pandemonium, compared with which the Tower of Babel was a quiet corner in Sleepy Hollow.
In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula Hugh Charles Clifford 1903
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The Greeks had a story about the Aloidæ who piled mountain upon mountain; the Bible story of the Tower of Babel is the same, where the masons called, "More mort," and those below sent up bricks.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Babel — a double piece of folly, for in the first place there are no such remains, and in the second, the Tower of Babel was a post-diluvian building.
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Because there is no archaeological evidence of buildings from antediluvian civilizations, the Tower of Babel was the first major monument ever built of which any evidence might remain.
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Because there is no archaeological evidence of buildings from antediluvian civilizations, the Tower of Babel was the first major monument ever built of which any evidence might remain.
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