babylonic
/ˌbæbɪˈlɒnɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to Babylon, or made there.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings"
- "Pipes of port, hogsheads of claret, cases of champagne, gallons of spirituous liquors, are unaccountably added up, subtracted, and divided, by the rule of three and the rule of contrary, into Babylonic confusion, such as worse confounds the confusion of the proprietor of all this intolerable quantity of sack."
- "From confusion and subsequent descent into Babylonic chaos and alterity, God's spirit — his saving, incarnate Word—prepares to enter man's heart and to transform the utter alienation and otherness of nature and society into blessed unity."
- "We'd strain to touch those lang'rous Length of thighs; And hear your short sharp modern Babylonic cries."
- "The neighboring computers also pick up on this disturbance of their collective chant, and as each is associatively connecting the new words to its own knowledge base, we hear the voices enter into a Babylonic confusion—or, as Rokeby calls it, "a party-like chaos of voices,""
- "If Evelina had no use for Luke Wavering, still less had she for his daughter, Daphne, brought up by him in this atmosphere of Babylonic miasma."
Etymology
From Latin Babylōnicus.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Babylōnicus
Inflected Forms
more Babylonic (comparative)
most Babylonic (superlative)