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Babylonian

[ bab-uh-loh-nee-uhn, -lohn-yuhn ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.
  2. extremely luxurious.
  3. wicked; sinful.


noun

  1. an inhabitant of ancient Babylonia.
  2. the dialect of Akkadian spoken in Babylonia. Compare Akkadian ( def 1 ).

Babylonian

/ 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of ancient Babylon or Babylonia, its people, or their language
  2. decadent or depraved
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • post-Bab·y·loni·an adjective
  • pre-Bab·y·loni·an adjective
  • pseudo-Baby·loni·an adjective noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Babylonian1

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

The Celestial whose "emergence" functions as the movie's climactic crisis is named Tiamut, which is a reference to an apocalyptic figure from Babylonian mythology.

We do not know how, if at all, his laws were applied by Babylonian judges, but even after Hammurabi’s successors lost power and Assyrian forces overran the region, Mesopotamians continued to refer to his laws.

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Last week, I came across a rather peculiar recipe for something called Babylonian radish pie.

Of the history of the tablets in question, which are all in the Old Babylonian character, we have no information.

In the Accadian the order is 'woman and man,' in the Assyro-Babylonian translation, 'man and woman.'

The president of the college of Sora was the second in rank in the Judo-Babylonian community.

An unimportant circumstance revealed the moral corruption of the Jewish Babylonian chiefs.

The institutions, too, and the traditions of Babylonian-Persian Judaism showed manifest signs of decay at this time.

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