Definitions

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

  • noun The Babylonian goddess of ocean waters.

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  • proper noun A Babylonian goddess who personifies the sea, considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos.
  • proper noun A supposed planet once located between Mars and Jupiter.

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  • noun (Akkadian) mother of the gods and consort of Apsu

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Akkadian tiāmat, absolute form of tiāmtu, sea; see thm in Semitic roots.]

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Examples

  • She first realized what happened when the word Tiamat is burned into the door of her restaurant the New Moon.

    Kitty Raises Hell-Carrie Vaughn « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

  • Tiamat is a backwater world in an interstellar empire, kept in its place by the empire’s high-tech aristocracy.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Erika Nelson 2008

  • Tiamat is a backwater world in an interstellar empire, kept in its place by the empire’s high-tech aristocracy.

    The Snow Queen Erika Nelson 2008

  • The Sumerians said Earth was really half a planet called Tiamat, which broke up in a collision with Nibiru,

    Campaign against Climate Change aggregator 2010

  • The Sumerians said Earth was really half a planet called Tiamat, which broke up in a collision with Nibiru,

    Campaign against Climate Change aggregator 2010

  • The creation story of the Babylonians, for example, describes gods and goddesses who were involved in a cosmic conflict and were constantly massacring one another, until the god Marduk seized power and murdered the goddess Tiamat, from whom he created the heavens and the earth.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • The creation story of the Babylonians, for example, describes gods and goddesses who were involved in a cosmic conflict and were constantly massacring one another, until the god Marduk seized power and murdered the goddess Tiamat, from whom he created the heavens and the earth.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • Marduk collages harrowing news reports of female political activists abducted, tortured or "disappeared" in places such as Paraguay, Turkey, and China, and juxtaposes them with an equally violent script: a Sumerian creation myth in which the god Marduk murders and disembowels the goddess Tiamat, splitting her "like a flat fish into two halves" to make "a covering for the heavens".

    Nancy Spero: no pity 2011

  • The creation story of the Babylonians, for example, describes gods and goddesses who were involved in a cosmic conflict and were constantly massacring one another, until the god Marduk seized power and murdered the goddess Tiamat, from whom he created the heavens and the earth.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • The creation story of the Babylonians, for example, describes gods and goddesses who were involved in a cosmic conflict and were constantly massacring one another, until the god Marduk seized power and murdered the goddess Tiamat, from whom he created the heavens and the earth.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

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