Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Babylonia or Babylon or their people, culture, or language.
- adjective Characterized by a luxurious, pleasure-seeking, and often immoral way of life.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Babylon or Babylonia.
- noun The form of Akkadian used in Babylonia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Babylon, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia, or to the kingdom itself.
- Like the confusion of tongues at Babel (= Babylon); mixed; confused.
- Popish. Scarlet.
- noun An inhabitant of Babylonia; a Chaldean.
- noun An astrologer: so used from the fact that the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
- noun A Papist. See I., 3.
- Figuratively, the term of years (1309–76) during which the papal court was at Avignon.
- noun A variety of ball game played with a large ball called a medicine-ball.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.
- proper noun An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
- proper noun An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the real (or to the mystical)
Babylon - adjective Of or pertaining to the ancient kingdom of
Babylonia ;Chaldea . - noun An inhabitant of the city of Babylon.
- noun An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included
Chaldea ); aChaldean . - noun An
astrologer ; so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study ofastrology . - proper noun The extinct
Akkadian (includes Babylonian and Assyrian diatects) language.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written
- adjective of or relating to the city of Babylon or its people or culture
- noun an inhabitant of ancient Babylon
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Examples
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Martin Luther used the term Babylonian captivity to refer to the entire period of medieval Christianity, when (he believed) the doctrine of salvation by works predominated.
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They all went to form the culture which we term Babylonian, and which left such enduring traces on Western Asia and the world.
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Marduk seems to have achieved a prominent status.en. wikipedia.org www. sacred-texts.com www. meta-religion.com The term Babylonian captivity, or Babylonian exile, typically refers to the deportation and exile of the Judeans of the ancient Kingdom of Judah to Babylon by
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Still, just like in Babylonian times, there were people trying to compute — to predict — more about the world.
Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge 2009
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Ancient Babylonian is not one of my languages, so I don't know where the stress would be in "Shammur".
Pronouncing Semiramis nwhyte 2008
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Basrah and the site of old Kufah near Kerbela; the well known visitation place in Babylonian Irak.
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"Nirgal", incidentally, is "Mars" in Babylonian; the Martian sinuous valleys are named after either terrestrial rivers or "Mars" in various languages.
Archive 2004-04-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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"Nirgal", incidentally, is "Mars" in Babylonian; the Martian sinuous valleys are named after either terrestrial rivers or "Mars" in various languages.
Optical misinterpretation Ray Girvan 2004
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Shadrach -- from Rak, in Babylonian, "the King," that is, "the Sun"; the same root as in Abrech (Ge 41: 43, Margin), "Inspired or illumined by the Sun-god."
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This included the liberation of the Jews from what is known as the Babylonian captivity.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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