English Dictionary

Babeldom

noun

A confused mix of voices, languages, or words and ideas. / A state of noisy confusion and chaotic activity / A multiplicity of mutually unintelligible languages.

Babeldom is a chaotic and cacophonous city, with a constant mix of voices from all over the world.

意味（1）

A confused mix of voices, languages, or words and ideas.

Only a German hobbledehoy was coarse with me, and cursed at my aping foreign Babeldoms, and thundered out in his beery bass, At a Tscherman mummery must the Tschennan Tscherman speak.

意味（2）

A state of noisy confusion and chaotic activity

HPSCHD is, literally, describable — six harpsichords, movie and still projections of lunar and terrestrial landscapes (courtesy of NASA), a vertiginous polyglot of quaquaversal dispersion, a Babeldom of visual and aural stimuli — but, like nearly all of Cage's work, its impact lies totally in the experiential effect of being there.

意味（3）

A multiplicity of mutually unintelligible languages.

In connection with both are night-schools for adults, which are also largely attended by Arabs, Copts, Jews, Levantines, and Europeans of almost every nationality: the waifs-and-strays of Babeldom who have no time for school-work by day, but who take industriously to it six evenings a week under the attractions here offered.