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Babylon
n.
ancient city located on the Euphrates River in Asia (former capital of the Babylonian Empire); site and ruins of the ancient city of Babylon located south of modern Baghdad (Iraq); Babylon Ltd., single-click dictionary and translator, provider of single-click information access and translation software
Babylon
Babylon ( or ; ,
Babil) was a significant city in ancient
Mesopotamia, in the fertile plain between the
Tigris and
Euphrates rivers. The city was built upon the Euphrates and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods. Babylon was originally a small
Semitic Akkadian city dating from the period of the
Akkadian Empire c. 2300 BC.
Babylon
Noun
1. the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capitol of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia
(hypernym) city, metropolis, urban center
(part-holonym) Mesopotamia
(part-meronym) Hanging Gardens of Babylon
(classification) Mesopotamia
(class) Babylonian
Babylon
n.
Babylon, ancient city located on the Euphrates River in Asia, Babylonia, Babylonian Empire (ancient empire in southwest Asia)
Babylon
Babylon [from Assyrian "gate of the gods"] An ancient, celebrated city on the Euphrates said to have been founded by the Assyrian monarch Ninus or his legendary wife Semiramis. In ancient times one foci through which Brahmanical esoteric wisdom from India was diffused in
Asia Minor, and its cosmogony forms a link between those teachings and the cosmogony of the Hebraic Bible.
