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Babylonian
Definitions
- 1 Pertaining to the city of Babylon, or the Babylonian Empire. historical, not-comparable
- 2 Roman Catholic (with reference to e.g. Revelation 14–18). derogatory, not-comparable, obsolete
"[W]e, on our parts, have learned to speak only the primitive language of the law, and not the confused jargon of their Babylonian pulpits."
- 3 Characteristic of Babylon or its civilization and inhabitants; huge, decadent, indulgent. . not-comparable
"The first was in the Babylonian halls of the big hotel, which was the meeting place of the three commercial magnates concerned with arranging for a coal lock-out and denouncing it as a coal strike,"
- 1 of or relating to the city of Babylon or its people or culture wordnet
- 1 A later form of the Akkadian language spoken in Babylonia from 1950 BCE to 100 CE.
- 1 An inhabitant of the city of Babylon.
- 2 the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written wordnet
- 3 An inhabitant of Babylonia, which included Chaldea; a Chaldean.
- 4 an inhabitant of ancient Babylon wordnet
- 5 An astrologer; so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
Etymology
From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an. By surface analysis, Babylon + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Babelian.
From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an. By surface analysis, Babylon + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Babelian.
From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an. By surface analysis, Babylon + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Babelian.
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