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Meaning of "babelesque" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BABELESQUE

babelesque  [ˌbeɪbəlˈɛsk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BABELESQUE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Babelesque is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BABELESQUE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of babelesque in the English dictionary

The definition of babelesque in the dictionary is resembling the situation at Babel, confused, impeding communication.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BABELESQUE


Disneyesque
ˌdɪznɪˈɛsk
gaminesque
ˌɡæmiːnˈɛsk
Hemingwayesque
ˌhɛmɪŋˌweɪˈɛsk
Junoesque
ˌdʒuːnəʊˈɛsk
Kafkaesque
ˌkæfkəˈɛsk
Pinteresque
ˌpɪntərˈɛsk
Ramboesque
ˌræmbəʊˈɛsk
statuesque
ˌstætjʊˈɛsk
Tarantinoesque
ˌtærənˌtiːnəʊˈɛsk
Titianesque
ˌtɪʃənˈɛsk
Tolkienesque
ˌtɒlkiːnˈɛsk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BABELESQUE

babblement
babbler
babbling
babbling brook
babbly
babe
babe-in-a-cradle
babe-in-arms
Babel
babeldom
babelish
babelism
Baber
babesia
babesiases
babesiasis
babesiosis
Babeuf
Babi
babiche

WORDS THAT END LIKE BABELESQUE

Alhambresque
arabesque
barbaresque
burlesque
carnivalesque
Chaplinesque
chivalresque
Dantesque
gigantesque
grotesque
humoresque
Moresque
picaresque
picturesque
plateresque
Pythonesque
risque
Romanesque
Rubenesque
soldatesque
Titanesque

Synonyms and antonyms of babelesque in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «babelesque» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BABELESQUE

Find out the translation of babelesque to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of babelesque from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «babelesque» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

babelesque
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

babelesque
570 millions of speakers

English

babelesque
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

babelesque
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

babelesque
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

babelesque
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

babelesque
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

babelesque
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

babelesque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Babelesque
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

babelesque
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

babelesque
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

babelesque
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Babelesque
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

babelesque
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

babelesque
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बॅलेब्सस्क
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

babelesque
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

babelesque
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

babelesque
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

babelesque
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

babelesque
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

babelesque
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

babelesque
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

babelesque
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

babelesque
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of babelesque

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BABELESQUE»

The term «babelesque» is normally little used and occupies the 141.812 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about babelesque

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BABELESQUE»

Discover the use of babelesque in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to babelesque and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Peripheral Visions: The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema
... utterly concrete presence of film-as-apparatus, as societal engine — or, at the very least, as instantaneous and inflammatory reflector of modernity's racing motor.1 The huge "film-city" (Filmstadt) at Neubabelsberg was certainly Babelesque, ...
Kenneth Scott Calhoon, 2001
2
Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference
The much remarked splendour of its buildings ('pallaces . . . reaching up to the clouds') should have called to mind the Babelesque presumption of building a tower 'whose top may reach unto heaven' (Genesis 11.4). The ambiguity of the ...
John Gillies, 1994
3
Aesthetic Formations
The politics of belonging of DJ Fernando Clarke and DJ Shadow is about promoting a positive recognition of Babelesque SXM, and the multiplicities of selves SXMers entertain each other too. Herein contradiction is the name of the game.
Birgit Meyer, 2009
4
Rossiya: Voices From the Brezhnev Era
I had not expected to see the streets filled with Babelesque characters like Benya Krik, the gangster; old Gedelli; or Zagursky, the violin teacher, with his ginger curls and frail legs. I had—thanks to Babel—expected more vitality. It occurred to  ...
Alex Shishin, 2006
5
The New Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader
Is what we hear today an incomprehensible Babelesque story, which is not only unlike anything we have heard before but is quite likely to contribute to our already polarized race relations and chronic “underclass” problems? Will today's new ...
CAROLA SUAREZ-OROZCO, Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, Desiree Baolian Qin-Hilliard, 2012
6
Glimpses of Another Land: Political Hopes, Spiritual ...
Should we neglect theology, should we continue to default to the Babelesque cacophony of the academy, we will perpetuate the betrayal of Christ's kingdom and contribute further to the decimation of Christian culture. We really have but one ...
Eric Miller, 2012
7
Literature After Globalization: Textuality, Technology and ...
Global community here becomes understood as the world bound together by network connections, apparently restituting an original unity which, having suffered an unspoken Babelesque fall into regional and tribal divisions, has become ...
Philip Leonard, 2013
8
Black Jack
So now you know the new Babylon is New York with its Babelesque edifices. I tell you now as goes New York City, so goes the United States. My message is simple and clear. Don't trust banks and other institutions. Hold tight to your families ...
George Patton, 2009
9
Sermo, Sanguis, Semen: An Anthropology of Language in Roman ...
Probably, Fronto is not thinking of some kind of Babelesque Urlanguage, nor should he be seen as a Dr. Pangloss ante litteram. More likely, he takes sermo as referring to the basic capacity or impulse for language that all men and women ...
William Michael Short, 2007
10
Worlds of Work: Building an International Sociology of Work
... from both disciplinary and linguistic divides. In this respect, I highlight what I see as some of the negative implications of the "Babelesque" character of an academic community that is fragmented by its various languages of reference.
Daniel B. Cornfield, Randy Hodson, 2002

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BABELESQUE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term babelesque is used in the context of the following news items.
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Readers Write (Jan. 31): Minneapolis development, climate-change …
As I bask in winter sun filtering through my window in the St. Anthony Main area of Minneapolis, I can't help questioning the recent Babelesque ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jan 15»
2
Special Feature: Mark Cousins' 'Life May Be'
This is a film that surpasses Babelesque conundrums, it listens, watches and exists in stillness which is encapsulated in Cousins first shot that stops and watches ... «CineVue, Dec 14»
3
The Inbox of Our Lives
In this Babelesque configuration, email does stand out unpleasantly for Marnie, but she also gives it its due. I get work messages in all of those ... «Huffington Post, Sep 13»
4
Beauty in its 'purest form'
While his show incorporates certain aspects of the more traditional belly dance music and choreography, Copeland said “Babelesque” is ... «Daily Pilot, Feb 08»

REFERENCE
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