Ziggurat Definition

zĭgə-răt
ziggurats
noun
A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, in the form of a terraced pyramid with each story smaller than the one below it.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • zikurat
  • zikkurat

Other Word Forms of Ziggurat

Noun

Singular:
ziggurat
Plural:
ziggurats

Origin of Ziggurat

  • Akkadian ziqqurratu temple tower from zaqāru to build high zqr in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Akkadian ziqqurratu, from zaqāru.[Cuneiform?]

    From Wiktionary

Ziggurat Sentence Examples

  • Access to the stages of the ziggurat, from the court beneath, was had by an inclined plane on the south-east side.

  • In the west corner stood a temple, with a stagetower (ziggurat) adjoining.

  • The approach to this ziggurat was toward the north-east, and on this side lay also the principal rooms of the temple of which this was the tower.

  • The city was divided into two parts by a canal, on an island in which stood the temple, E-mach, with a ziggurat, or stage tower.

  • To the north-east of the ziggurat stood, apparently, the House of Bel, and in the courts below the ziggurat stood various other buildings, shrines, treasure chambers and the like.

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