Babylonian

[ bab-uh-loh-nee-uhn, -lohn-yuhn ]

/ ˌbæb əˈloʊ ni ən, -ˈloʊn yən /

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adjective Also Babylonish.

of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.

extremely luxurious.

wicked; sinful.

noun

an inhabitant of ancient Babylonia.

the dialect of Akkadian spoken in Babylonia. Compare Akkadian (def. 1).

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Origin of Babylonian

First recorded in 1555–65; Babyloni(a) + -an

OTHER WORDS FROM Babylonian

post-Bab·y·lo·ni·an, adjectivepre-Bab·y·lo·ni·an, adjectivepseu·do-Bab·y·lo·ni·an, adjective, noun

Words nearby Babylonian

baby fat, baby food, baby grand, Babylon, Babylonia, Babylonian, Babylonian captivity, Babylonish, baby lust, baby mama, baby-minder

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How to use Babylonian in a sentence

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We do not know how, if at all, his laws were applied by Babylonian judges, but even after Hammurabi’s successors lost power and Assyrian forces overran the region, Mesopotamians continued to refer to his laws.
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Last week, I came across a rather peculiar recipe for something called Babylonian radish pie.
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Of the history of the tablets in question, which are all in the Old Babylonian character, we have no information.
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In the Accadian the order is 'woman and man,' in the Assyro-Babylonian translation, 'man and woman.'
Assyria, Its Princes, Priests and People|A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
The president of the college of Sora was the second in rank in the Judo-Babylonian community.
History of the Jews, Vol. III (of 6)|Heinrich Graetz
An unimportant circumstance revealed the moral corruption of the Jewish Babylonian chiefs.
History of the Jews, Vol. III (of 6)|Heinrich Graetz
The institutions, too, and the traditions of Babylonian-Persian Judaism showed manifest signs of decay at this time.
History of the Jews, Vol. III (of 6)|Heinrich Graetz

British Dictionary definitions for Babylonian

Babylonian

/ (ˌbæbɪˈləʊnɪən) /

noun

an inhabitant of ancient Babylon or Babylonia

the extinct language of Babylonia, belonging to the E Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family: a dialect of Akkadian

adjective

of, relating to, or characteristic of ancient Babylon or Babylonia, its people, or their language

decadent or depraved

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