Chaldea

American  

[kal-dee-uh] / kælˈdi ə /

Or Chaldaea

noun

1. an ancient region in the lower Tigris and Euphrates valley, in S Babylonia.

2. Babylonia.

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Chaldea British  

/ kælˈdiːə /

noun

1. an ancient region of Babylonia; the land lying between the Euphrates delta, the Persian Gulf, and the Arabian desert

2. another name for Babylonia

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Example Sentences

Wynne Jones was working on the manuscript for The Islands of Chaldea when she became too ill to continue, said her sister Ursula Jones, also an award-winning children's author.

From The Guardian

Here we have a manifest trace of different systems applying to the ancient tradition calendrical conceptions, dissimilar in each record, and yet all seeming to have proceeded from Chaldea.

From Project Gutenberg

Are we still to pay tribute to Chaldea?

From Project Gutenberg

Up to this time Abraham to all appearance had no knowledge of any God but the deities worshipped by his fathers in Chaldea.

From Project Gutenberg

The ancient wisdom of Egypt and Chaldea lived on with the men who knew, called the Gnostics.

From Project Gutenberg