Babylon

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A city in ancient Mesopotamia, built on the banks of the Euphrates, which was the capital of Babylonia.
• Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.
• Western civilization, seen as corrupt and materialistic, and contrasted with Zion.
• The police.

Origin

• Partially inherited from Old English Babilon/Babȳlōn, partially from Latin Babylōn, from Ancient Greek Βαβυλών, from Akkadian Bābilim; the name of the ancient Chaldean capital and Biblical city of the Apocalypse.