Accad

British  

/ ˈækæd /

noun

1. a variant spelling of Akkad

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Example Sentences

A classmate, 16-year-old Kiara Accad, said she had come to the United States from the Philippines believing that Columbus had discovered an uninhabited land.

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2017

Babylon is already mentioned as one of his seats of power; his capital, however, was at Agade or Accad, where on one occasion he was unsuccessfully besieged by his revolted subjects.

From A Primer of Assyriology by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

The boundaries would be—roughly and generally speaking—the two rivers for East and West; while for the North and South boundaries we should draw parallel lines through Accad on the North and Babylon on the South.

From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry

This it is that explains the fact that so many inscriptions and tablets, while written in the dialect of Shumir or Accad, are Semitic in spirit and in the grade of culture they betray.

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)

See Apsū, Apason Accad, a city of Nimrod's kingdom, 118.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge