Babylonian

a. 巴比伦的, 罪恶的

发音

UK /bæbɪˈləʊnɪ.ən/
US /bæbɪˈloʊnɪ.ən/

词形变化

Babylonians 复数 Babylonians

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An inhabitant of the city of Babylon.

  2. 2.

    An inhabitant of Babylonia, which included Chaldea; a Chaldean.

  3. 3.

    An astrologer; so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Pertaining to the city of Babylon, or the Babylonian Empire.

    历史
  2. 2.

    Roman Catholic (with reference to e.g. Revelation 14–18).

    贬义 废旧
  3. 3.

    Characteristic of Babylon or its civilization and inhabitants; huge, decadent, indulgent. .

    The first was in the Babylonian halls of the big hotel, which was the meeting place of the three commercial magnates concerned with arranging for a coal lock-out and denouncing it as a coal strike,

name
  1. 1.

    A later form of the Akkadian language spoken in Babylonia from 1950 BCE to 100 CE.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

cuneiform Semite

下位词 1

Sumerian

相关短语

Babylonian Talmud Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Old Babylonian Middle Babylonian

词源

From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an. By surface analysis, Babylon + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Babelian.

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