babylonian
/bæbɪˈloʊnɪ.ən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the city of Babylon, or the Babylonian Empire.
adj
Characteristic of Babylon or its civilization and inhabitants; huge, decadent, indulgent. .
noun
An inhabitant of the city of Babylon.
noun
An inhabitant of Babylonia, which included Chaldea; a Chaldean.
noun
An astrologer; so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
Example Sentences
- "[W]e, on our parts, have learned to speak only the primitive language of the law, and not the confused jargon of their Babylonian pulpits."
- "The first was in the Babylonian halls of the big hotel, which was the meeting place of the three commercial magnates concerned with arranging for a coal lock-out and denouncing it as a coal strike,"
Etymology
From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an. By surface analysis, Babylon + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Babelian.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bæbɪˈloʊnɪ.ən/
- British English: /bæbɪˈləʊnɪ.ən/