Babylon Definition

băbə-lən, -lŏn
noun
A city or place of great luxury, sensuality, and often vice and corruption.
American Heritage
A place of captivity or exile.
American Heritage
pronoun

Capital of Babylonia in the 2nd and 1st century BC.

Wiktionary
Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.
Wiktionary

(Rastafarianism) Western civilization, seen as corrupt and materialistic, and contrasted with Zion.

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Origin of Babylon

  • From Latin Babylōn, from Ancient Greek Βαβυλών (Babulōn), from Akkadian (Bābili [KA2.DINGIR.RAKI], literally “Gate of God”), translation of Sumerian KA.DINGIR; the name of the ancient Chaldean capital and Biblical city of the Apocalypse.

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Babylon Sentence Examples

  • Alexander returns to Babylon, is crowned with much pomp and mass is celebrated.

  • The right arm was the original bed, and the left arm, on which Babylon was built, the artificial deviation, as is clear from the cuneiform inscriptions.

  • Occidental geographers, however, have followed the Greek use, and so to-day we call the river of Babylon or Nahr Sura the Euphrates and the older westerly channel the Hindieh canal.

  • Many of the villages of Mesopotamia are built of second-hand bricks of a very good quality, obtained from the ruins of Babylon, and the cement on them is older and probably harder still.

  • Epiphanius (Vitae prophetarum) says that he came up from Babylon while still young, prophesied the return, witnessed the building of the temple and received an honoured burial near the priests.

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Words Starting With

BBABAB

Words Ending With

NONLON

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Words Starting With B and Ending With N

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With B7 Letter Words Ending With N