Babylonian

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

adjective

1. of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.
2. extremely luxurious.
3. wicked; sinful.

noun

1. an inhabitant of ancient Babylonia.
2. the dialect of Akkadian spoken in Babylonia. Compare Akkadian ( def 1 ).

Babylonian

/ ˌbæbɪˈləʊnɪən /

noun

1. an inhabitant of ancient Babylon or Babylonia
2. the extinct language of Babylonia, belonging to the E Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family: a dialect of Akkadian

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of ancient Babylon or Babylonia, its people, or their language
2. decadent or depraved

Other Words From

• post-Bab·y·loni·an adjective
• pre-Bab·y·loni·an adjective
• pseudo-Baby·loni·an adjective noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Babylonian¹

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

Example Sentences

The Celestial whose "emergence" functions as the movie's climactic crisis is named Tiamut, which is a reference to an apocalyptic figure from Babylonian mythology.

From TechCrunch

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.

From Time

Last week, I came across a rather peculiar recipe for something called Babylonian radish pie.

From FiveThirtyEight

Of the history of the tablets in question, which are all in the Old Babylonian character, we have no information.

From Project Gutenberg

In the Accadian the order is 'woman and man,' in the Assyro-Babylonian translation, 'man and woman.'

From Project Gutenberg

The president of the college of Sora was the second in rank in the Judo-Babylonian community.

From Project Gutenberg

An unimportant circumstance revealed the moral corruption of the Jewish Babylonian chiefs.

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The institutions, too, and the traditions of Babylonian-Persian Judaism showed manifest signs of decay at this time.

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