Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to Babylonia or Babylon or their people, culture, or language.
  • adjective Characterized by a luxurious, pleasure-seeking, and often immoral way of life.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Babylon or Babylonia.
  • noun The form of Akkadian used in Babylonia.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to Babylon, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia, or to the kingdom itself.
  • Like the confusion of tongues at Babel (= Babylon); mixed; confused.
  • Popish. Scarlet.
  • noun An inhabitant of Babylonia; a Chaldean.
  • noun An astrologer: so used from the fact that the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
  • noun A Papist. See I., 3.
  • Figuratively, the term of years (1309–76) during which the papal court was at Avignon.
  • noun A variety of ball game played with a large ball called a medicine-ball.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
  • proper noun An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the real (or to the mystical) Babylon
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldea.
  • noun An inhabitant of the city of Babylon.
  • noun An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
  • noun An astrologer; so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
  • proper noun The extinct Akkadian (includes Babylonian and Assyrian diatects) language.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written
  • adjective of or relating to the city of Babylon or its people or culture
  • noun an inhabitant of ancient Babylon

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Examples

  • Martin Luther used the term Babylonian captivity to refer to the entire period of medieval Christianity, when (he believed) the doctrine of salvation by works predominated.

    e. The Papacy and Italy 2001

  • They all went to form the culture which we term Babylonian, and which left such enduring traces on Western Asia and the world.

    Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs 1889

  • Marduk seems to have achieved a prominent status.en. wikipedia.org www. sacred-texts.com www. meta-religion.com The term Babylonian captivity, or Babylonian exile, typically refers to the deportation and exile of the Judeans of the ancient Kingdom of Judah to Babylon by

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  • Still, just like in Babylonian times, there were people trying to compute — to predict — more about the world.

    Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge 2009

  • Ancient Babylonian is not one of my languages, so I don't know where the stress would be in "Shammur".

    Pronouncing Semiramis nwhyte 2008

  • Basrah and the site of old Kufah near Kerbela; the well known visitation place in Babylonian Irak.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • "Nirgal", incidentally, is "Mars" in Babylonian; the Martian sinuous valleys are named after either terrestrial rivers or "Mars" in various languages.

    Archive 2004-04-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • "Nirgal", incidentally, is "Mars" in Babylonian; the Martian sinuous valleys are named after either terrestrial rivers or "Mars" in various languages.

    Optical misinterpretation Ray Girvan 2004

  • Shadrach -- from Rak, in Babylonian, "the King," that is, "the Sun"; the same root as in Abrech (Ge 41: 43, Margin), "Inspired or illumined by the Sun-god."

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • This included the liberation of the Jews from what is known as the Babylonian captivity.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

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