Crossword clues for ziggurat
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zikkurat \Zik"ku*rat\, n. A temple tower of the Babylonians or Assyrians, consisting of a lofty pyramidal structure, built in successive stages, with outside staircases, and a shrine at the top; -- called also ziggurat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also zikkurat, 1858, from Assyrian ziqquratu "height, pinnacle," from zaqaru "to be high."
Wiktionary
n. A temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Ziggurats ( ; Akkadian ziqqurat, D-stem of zaqāru "to build on a raised area") were massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.
Notable ziggurats include the Great Ziggurat of Ur near Nasiriyah, Iraq; the Ziggurat of Aqar Quf near Baghdad, Iraq; the now destroyed Etemenanki in Babylon; Chogha Zanbil in Khūzestān, Iran; and Sialk near Kashan, Iran.
A ziggurat is a pyramidal structure that first appeared during ancient times in the Middle East. It may also refer to:
- A ziggurat algorithm, a number generating algorithm
- The Ziggurat, the Chet Holifield Federal Building in Laguna Niguel, California
- The Ziggurat, an office building in West Sacramento, California
- Ziggurats (album), a 2007 album by the The Beautiful Girls
- Zigurat (company), a Spanish video game development company
- Ziggurat (video game), a 2012 iOS video game by Action Button Entertainment
- Ziggurat (2014 video game), a 2014 video game by Milkstone Studios released on PC, Xbox One and PS4
Ziggurat, stylized as ZiGGURAT, is a retro-style arcade shooter video game developed by Action Button Entertainment for iOS platforms. As the world's last human fighting off incoming alien freaks from atop a ziggurat, the player uses simple touch controls to charge and shoot the enemies away, and dies if hit by an enemy. The game has 16-bit graphics style and an 8-bit chiptune soundtrack. Action Button designer Tim Rogers developed the game idea based on his experience with Angry Birds, which later led to his forming Action Button as a company with Ziggurat as its first release on February 17, 2012.
The game received "generally favorable" reviews, according to video game review score aggregator Metacritic. Reviewers praised Ziggurat nuanced controls and minimalism. Time magazine picked the game as one of the best for the then new high-resolution third generation iPad.
Ziggurat is a first-person shooter dungeon crawl video game developed and published by Milkstone Studios. The game was released for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and OS X in October 2014 after being available for two months in early access. The game was later released for the Xbox One in March 2015, and the PlayStation 4 in April 2015.
Usage examples of "ziggurat".
Lady Inula had returned to her house, Relkin Orphanboy of Quosh glimpsed the top of the great ziggurat of the city of Ourdh for the first time.
And here was Saladin, his face disfigured like one of the clay masks the priests in Kish would don before they climbed the ziggurat to the gods, his fifteen-year-old body disintegrating before his own eyes, dying in the sands for nothing.
It much resembled the ziggurats of Babylonia, in the respect that a steep railless ramp wound from base to top in seven decreasing spirals.
Far off in the blue distance, heat-hazed so that it appeared to be a dreamy mirage on the horizon, was the city of Belshazzar the Great, its thick stone walls overleaped by its many ziggurats and palatial towers.
A few forgot the warnings that the western ziggurat could not support significant weight and landed on its jutting steps, causing the structure to shudder and chunks of plasterboard sprayed with decorative pseudo-stone to plummet down.
We passed many temples of the lesser gods, and then the great ziggurat of Shamash, with the solar disk mounted at its apex.
Abdikadir, Eumenes and de Morgan had followed more slowly up the ziggurat.
Majesty as he descended the ziggurat, smiling and relaxed, bringing his Dukes and Barons with him to receive tithes at the retaining wall, Pallas had to admit that he knew everything there was to know about making a star entrance.
From a central loggia we had a fine view of what the Babylonians call a ziggurat, or high place.
Far off in the blue distance, heat-hazed so that it appeared to be a dreamy mirage on the horizon, was the city of Belshazzar the Great, its thick stone walls overleaped by its many ziggurats and palatial towers.
Marduk mounted the ziggurat to stand upon its flattened apex so that the gathered worshipers might look upon him.
Babylon, the Babylon of kings and high lords, of perfumed palaces and shining white ziggurats dedicated to Bel-Marduk, to Ia, and to Ishtar.
There, they had proceeded, chanting the song of Enlil and Ninlil, to come at length to a corridor among ziggurats atop which lion-bodied spirits with the heads of men and women appeared, to come in with the choruses and with intonements of blessing.
Mylar balloons in the shapes of winged lions, winged bulls, and ziggurats bob over the throng, their strings clutched by hands still sticky from the free ice cream provided by the Church of Elish.
Some of the ziggurats looked as if they could support a fair amount of weight.