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Babylonian

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Bab·y·lo·ni·an  (bb-ln-n)
adj.
1. Of or relating to Babylonia or Babylon or their people, culture, or language.
2. Characterized by a luxurious, pleasure-seeking, and often immoral way of life.
n.
1. A native or inhabitant of Babylon or Babylonia.
2. The form of Akkadian used in Babylonia.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Babylonian - an inhabitant of ancient Babylon
Semite - a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa
Sumerian - a member of a people who inhabited ancient Sumer
2.Babylonian - the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written
cuneiform - an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
Babylon - the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia
Adj.1.Babylonian - of or relating to the city of Babylon or its people or culture; "Babylonian religion"


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Emblazonings, as of crowned Babylonian kings and queens, reigned over everything.
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The particular millionaire who owned the freehold of Wickham Place, and desired to erect Babylonian flats upon it--what right had he to stir so large a portion of the quivering jelly?
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Dantes was a man of great simplicity of thought, and without education; he could not, therefore, in the solitude of his dungeon, traverse in mental vision the history of the ages, bring to life the nations that had perished, and rebuild the ancient cities so vast and stupendous in the light of the imagination, and that pass before the eye glowing with celestial colors in Martin's Babylonian pictures.
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