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What is a tower of Babel?

What is a tower of Babel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (figuratively) A situation where the use of many different languages is a source of confusion.
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The Tower of Babel, the great ziggurat beside Babylon's temple of Marduk, dates to this era.
Up to the time of the tower of Babel and the call of Abram from Ur of the Chaldees, there were just nations, or Gentiles as later called.
The voices of its children are like the voices from the tower of Babel.
The congress is the industry's very own Tower of Babel and more than 50,000 joined in the techno-speak gabfest this year.
Madam President, this Parliament is like the Tower of Babel, an allegory of the Habsburg Empire, which was full of sycophants.
A language sweet to the ears and hearts of humanity, which will go along toppling stone by stone the tower of Babel which has been built up in their hearts.

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