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Tower of Babel properNoun

  • (biblical) A tower erected at Babel by the descendants of Noah's son Ham to reach the sky, and whose completion God thwarted by making the workers speak different languages so that they were unable to understand one another.
 toren van Babel

tower of Babel noun

  • (figuratively) A situation where the use of many different languages is a source of confusion.
 toren van Babel
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