noun
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an inhabitant of ancient Babylon or Babylonia
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the extinct language of Babylonia, belonging to the E Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family: a dialect of Akkadian
adjective
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of, relating to, or characteristic of ancient Babylon or Babylonia, its people, or their language
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decadent or depraved
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Babylonian
First recorded in 1555–65; Babyloni(a) + -an
Example Sentences
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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 ● Dec. 18, 2025
She likely originated in the Babylonian kharimati, singing priestesses of bull-riding goddess Ishtar.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
Located five miles south of downtown Los Angeles in the City of Commerce, the behemoth at 5675 Telegraph Road resembled Babylonian ruins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
Mercury retrograde was probably first documented by Babylonian astronomers around the 7th century B.C., says Mathieu Ossendrijver, a historian of ancient science, Assyriologist and astrophysicist at the Freie Universität Berlin.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 24, 2023
His voice was like the sound of a badly made flute, and sibilant with his Babylonian accent.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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