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Definition of Babylon
1. Noun. The chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia.
Geographical relationships: Babylonian, Babylonia, Chaldaea, Chaldea, Adad, Adapa, Anshar, Antum, Anu, Anunnaki, Enuki, Ishtar, Mylitta, Bel, Damgalnunna, Damkina, Girru, Gula, Kishar, Baal Merodach, Bel-merodach, Marduk, Merodach, Nabu, Nebo, Nina, Ningirsu, Ningishzida, Ninib, Ninurta, Sarpanitu, Zarpanit, Zirbanit, Shamash, Tashmit, Tashmitum
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Mesopotamia
Geographical relationships: Mesopotamia
Derivative terms: Babylonian
Definition of Babylon
1. Proper noun. Capital of Babylonia in the 2nd and 1st century BC. ¹
2. Proper noun. Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice. ¹
3. Proper noun. (context: Rastafarianism) Term for the so-called white man's civilization. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Babylon
Literary usage of Babylon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"And when a Babylonian caravan has been robbed by the people of Akko in Canaan,
the Egyptian Government receives a peremptory letter from Babylon for amende ..."
2. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the by Canadian Bible Society (1891)
"THUS saith the LORD ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them
that dwell in the midst or them that rise up against me, a destroying wind ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Nabo ni- Babylon. He was a pietist, an anti- The Fall of little aptitude for the
cares of he contributed ... His Babylon. State and little interest in them. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"It is doubtful whether the god meant was Merodach or Anu, Merodach being the
patron divinity of Babylon in the Semitic period, and Su-Anna, '• the valley of ..."
5. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"The town of Babylon, probably in time, extended down to the plain ; for to the
north of that part of the hill which fets out towards the river, ..."
6. The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1836)
"Of the ruins of Babylon on the western side, where the new palace stood which
... And Babylon the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, ..."
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