Babylonian

American  

[bab-uh-loh-nee-uhn, -lohn-yuhn] / ˌbæb əˈloʊ ni ən, -ˈloʊn yən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.

2. extremely luxurious.

3. wicked; sinful.

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noun

1. an inhabitant of ancient Babylonia.

2. the dialect of Akkadian spoken in Babylonia.

Babylonian British  

/ ˌbæbɪˈləʊnɪən /

noun

1. an inhabitant of ancient Babylon or Babylonia

2. the extinct language of Babylonia, belonging to the E Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family: a dialect of Akkadian

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adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of ancient Babylon or Babylonia, its people, or their language

2. decadent or depraved

Other Word Forms

• post-Babylonian adjective
• pre-Babylonian adjective
• pseudo-Babylonian adjective

Etymology

Origin of Babylonian

First recorded in 1555–65; Babyloni(a) + -an

Example Sentences

After all, according to Babylonian mythology, the original Tiamat was the mother dragon who had created the world.

From Literature

Yale's vase has been in the Babylonian Collection since shortly after the university established the collection of about 40,000 ancient artifacts in 1911.

From Science Daily

Working in partnership with the University of Baghdad, Professor Jiménez rediscovered a Babylonian text that had remained hidden for more than a millennium.

From Science Daily

It is a day of mourning for the destruction by the Babylonians of Jerusalem's first Jewish Temple and of its second one by the Romans.

From BBC

The 3 centuries after 1600 B.C.E. also marked the heyday of such civilizations as the Mycenaeans in Greece, the Hittites and Babylonians in the Near East, and Egypt’s New Kingdom.

From Science Magazine