Bedlam vs Babel - What's the difference?
bedlam | babel | Related terms |
A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.
* 1872 : , The Complete Works of John Bunyan , p 133
* 2002 : Mark L. Friedman, ''Everyday Crisis Management, p 134
(obsolete) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A lunatic asylum; a madhouse.
* 1720 : , The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson , p 43
The city and tower in the land of Shinar where the confusion of languages took place, according to the Bible.
:* Therefore is the name of it called Babel . - Gen. xi. 9.
A confused mixture of sounds and voices, especially in different languages.
* 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 48:
A place or scene of noise and confusion.
A tall, looming structure.
Bedlam is a related term of babel.
As nouns the difference between bedlam and babel
is that bedlam is a place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails while babel is .bedlam
English
Noun
(en noun)- Some of the wards were veritable "bedlams ," and dis-charged patients have told of abuses practiced in them of which the mere recital causes a shudder.
- The outside of the Hyatt was bedlam . There was a group of more than a hundred injured people on the circular drive in front of the hotel.
- Let's get the bedlam to lead him.
- But if any man should profess to believe these things, and yet allow himself in any known wickedness, such a one should be put into bedlam.
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* * *babel
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Noun
(en noun)- A babel of languages could be heard in the streets and the squares, mingling with the local Provençal.