Crossword clues for babylonian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Babylonian \Bab`y*lo"ni*an\, a. Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.
Babylonian \Bab`y*lo"ni*an\, prop. n.
An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s; see Babylon + -ian. From 1630s as an adjective. Earlier in the adjectival sense was Babylonical (1530s).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to the real (or to the mystical) Babylon 2 Of or pertaining to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldea. n. 1 An inhabitant of the city of Babylon. 2 An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean. 3 An astrologer; so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology. n. A later form of Akkadian language spoken in Babylonia in 1950 BC – 100 AD.
Wikipedia
Babylonian may refer to:
- Babylon, a Semitic Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia founded in 1894 BC
- Babylonia, an ancient Akkadian-speaking Semitic nation state and cultural region based in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq)
- Babylonian language, a dialect of the Akkadian language
Usage examples of "babylonian".
Alexander quickly won Babylonian favor when, unlike the Achaemenids, he displayed respect for such Babylonian traditions as the worship of their chief god, Marduk.
Hommel, the Assyriologist, who is inclined to derive Egyptian civilization entirely from the Babylonian.
Khem in obsidian, Bast in carnelian, Besa in serpentine, signets in jasper, and ropes of diamonds which had been Babylonian gems of spoil.
The Babylonians and Assyrians attained to a high degree of proficiency in brickmaking, notably in the manufacture of bricks having a coating of coloured glaze or enamel, which they largely used for wall decoration.
Barbarians called Cassites conquered the remains of the Babylonian Culture, about 1700 B.
Examples of these were Father Abraham, who was of the Chaldees, and was entrusted with the secret teachings and doctrines laid down by the Babylonians of old Moses, Jacob, Quetzalcoatl, Mohammed, Buddha and many others.
Arabic, innumerable Indian dialects, Hebrew, Pehlevi, Assyrian, Babylonian, Mongolian, Chinese, Burmese, Mesopotamian, Javanese: the list of philological works considered Orientalist is almost uncountable.
Nazi Party, set out to fulfill his assignment in the great Babylonian city.
Jerusalem, the murderess of her prophets, and so often prostituted to the false gods of the Syrians and Babylonians, had at length in its turn lost the Holy Word, when a Prophet announced to the Magi by the consecrated Star of Initiation, came to rend asunder the worn veil of the old Temple, in order to give the Church a new tissue of legends and symbols, that still and ever conceals from the Profane, and ever preserves to the Elect the same truths.
I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyze, and annihilate me.
Hittites, Perizzites, Ammonites, Assyrians, Persians, Babylonians, and other people who had been living in that time.
Babylonian organization was well up to seeing that there were plenty of sickles and mattocks.
Parthian and Babylonian leather, cottons, silks, both raw and manufactured, ebony, ivory, and eunuchs.
He was a landscape gardener under the Babylonians and a tentmaker under the Persians.
Later Assyrian and Babylonian kings ruled all of modern Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel.