What does "chaldean" mean?
A native or inhabitant of Chaldea.
Chaldean
/kælˈdi.ən/ adj, name, noun
adj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A native or inhabitant of Chaldea.
- Grammar: chaldean is listed as adj, name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: astrologer, astrological, astronomical, babylonian.
- Useful contrasts: non Catholic, non Chaldean, non Chaldean Catholic.
- Usage evidence: I learned a bit of Chaldean on that app I told you about.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A native or inhabitant of Chaldea.
"The Chaldeans had great faith in Ea, their god of healing, to whom prayers were said in case of sickness, but herb remedies were also given the patient by the god's representative in the community."
- 2 an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea wordnet
- 3 A member of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
- 4 a wise man skilled in occult learning wordnet
- 5 A diviner or astrologer.
"Older Babylonian astrology, which flourished in Kassite and Assyrian times (1400-700 B.C.) had a quite different character: it aimed at short-range predictions of general public events, such as wars and harvests, from striking phenomena such as eclipses, clouds, annual rising and setting of planets, whereas the Hellenistic "Chaldaeans" predicted individual fates from positions of planets and zodiacal signs at the date of birth or conception. [...] So the individual character of horoscopic astrology should not be stressed too much. The essential new feature is, that positions of planets and zodiacal signs are used for long-range predictions. Now these positions are by no means striking events: planets may be invisible, and signs are never visible. The data needed for a horoscope had, in most cases, to be calculated from tables. We ignore how, when and why this transformation took place. But it could only take place in Babylonia, where tables were available for calculating positions of planets at remote dates. Not without reason astrologers were called "Chaldaeans" throughout the Roman Empire!"
Adjective
- 1 Of or pertaining to Chaldea specifically, or ancient Babylonia in general. not-comparable
"Honour me! Chaldean priests / Bow to me in adoration"
Adjective
- 1 of or relating to ancient Chaldea or its people or language or culture wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 The West Semitic language of the ancient Chaldeans.
- 2 Synonym of Biblical Aramaic (now considered a misnomer). historical
- 3 Synonym of Chaldean Neo-Aramaic.
Antonyms
non Catholicnon Chaldeannon Chaldean Catholicnon inhabitant
Example
"I learned a bit of Chaldean on that app I told you about."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "chaldean"?
Common synonyms include: astrologer, astrological, astronomical, babylonian, chaldaean, chaldaean.
How do you use "chaldean" in a sentence?
I learned a bit of Chaldean on that app I told you about.
How do you pronounce "chaldean"?
Pronounced /kælˈdi.ən/.
Etymology
From Latin chaldaeus [from Ancient Greek Χαλδαῖος (Khaldaîos)] + -an.