tower of babel

Noun tower of babel has 1 sense

• tower of babel(n = noun.artifact) babel - (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;
is a kind of ziggurat, zikkurat, zikurat
is a part of babylon