the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia: first settled around 3000 bc
See also Hanging Gardens of Babylon(in Protestant polemic) the Roman Catholic Church, regarded as the seat of luxury and corruption any society or group in a society considered as corrupt or as a place of exile by another society or group, esp White Britain as viewed by some Rastafarians
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Bab•y•lon
(bab′ə lən, -lon′),USA pronunciation n.
- Ancient History, Place Namesan ancient city of SW Asia, on the Euphrates River, famed for its magnificence and culture: capital of Babylonia and later of the Chaldean empire.
- any rich and magnificent city believed to be a place of excessive luxury and wickedness.
- Place Namesa city on S Long Island, in SE New York. 12,388.
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'Babylon' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Akkad
- Babel
- Babylonia
- Babylonian
- Babylonish
- Behistun
- Belshazzar
- Bāb
- Daniel
- Ezekiel
- Ezra
- Gedaliah
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- Hilla
- Jerusalem
- Malouf
- Nabonassar
- Nebuchadnezzar
- North Babylon
- Pyramus and Thisbe
- Semiramis
- Sennacherib
- Seven Wonders of the World
- West Babylon
- Zedekiah
- exilic
- kish