Babylonian

Meanings

Adjective

• pertaining to the city of Babylon, or the Babylonian Empire.
• Roman Catholic (with reference to e.g. Revelation 14–18).
• characteristic of Babylon or its civilization and inhabitants; huge, decadent, indulgent.

Noun

• an inhabitant of the city of Babylon.
• an inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
• an astrologer; so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.

Proper Noun

• a later form of Akkadian language spoken in Babylonia in 1950 BC – 100 AD.

Related

Similar words

• Babylonic

Origin

• From Latin Babylōnius ("of Babylon, Babylonian") (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος) -an; corresponding to Babylon + -ian.