BabelNet is a term used to describe a multilingual lexical database and semantic network that has been developed to aid natural language processing tasks. Some synonyms for BabelNet include multilingual semantic network, lexical resource platform, and cross-lingual semantic engine. BabelNet is designed to overcome the language barriers faced by users of translation and information retrieval systems by providing a unified view of the knowledge associated with various languages. It does this by combining several language resources including WordNet and Wikipedia, incorporating over 300 languages. Ultimately, BabelNet provides a powerful tool for natural language processing developers, linguists, and language enthusiasts.