zigguratn.

Brit.

/ˈzɪɡᵿrat/, U.S.

/ˈzɪɡəˌræt/

Forms: 1800s– ziggurat, 1800s– zikkurat.

Etymology: < Assyrian ziqquratu (also zigg-, sig(g)-, -ur(r)at) height, pinnacle, top of a mountain, temple-tower; compare zaqaru to be high (Muss-Arnolt).

1. A staged tower of pyramid form in which each successive storey is smaller than that below it, so as to leave a terrace all round; an Assyrian or Babylonian temple-tower.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > of pyramid form

shikhara1829

ziggurat1877

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [noun] > high building > type of

porcelain tower1666

gopura1862

ziggurat1877

subtower1883

1877 tr. Lenormat's Chaldæan Magic xv. 227 The ziggurrat or sacred tower of the palace of Khorsabad.

1883 P. H. Hunter Story Daniel ix. 156 In all directions rise the lofty ziggurats or towers of the temples.

1898 Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 5 The ziggurat, or great tower, of which the Tower of Babel was a famous example.

1908 Expositor May 402 The zikkurats at Erech and Borsippa.

2. transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

1959 Times 21 Oct. 11/3 The burnished ziggurats of copper saucepans.

1970 Daily Tel. 30 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 26/3 The bags are abandoned, of course, and join the rest of the overkill of trash imagery, now heaped into ziggurats, festooning vegetation, scrawled in livid drifts on the downs.

1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Nov. 761/1 His Dallas Chapel in the form of a spiral ziggurat..borrows quite directly from the ninth-century minaret at Samarra.

1980 Bee Culture July 376 The photograph will give an idea of the real engineering performed to make this temple a ‘ziggurat’ of comb—upward from the base above the regular [honey]combs.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	ziggurat
释义	zigguratn. Brit. /ˈzɪɡᵿrat/, U.S. /ˈzɪɡəˌræt/ Forms: 1800s– ziggurat, 1800s– zikkurat. Etymology: < Assyrian ziqquratu (also zigg-, sig(g)-, -ur(r)at) height, pinnacle, top of a mountain, temple-tower; compare zaqaru to be high (Muss-Arnolt). 1. A staged tower of pyramid form in which each successive storey is smaller than that below it, so as to leave a terrace all round; an Assyrian or Babylonian temple-tower. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > of pyramid form shikhara1829 ziggurat1877 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [noun] > high building > type of porcelain tower1666 gopura1862 ziggurat1877 subtower1883 1877 tr. Lenormat's Chaldæan Magic xv. 227 The ziggurrat or sacred tower of the palace of Khorsabad. 1883 P. H. Hunter Story Daniel ix. 156 In all directions rise the lofty ziggurats or towers of the temples. 1898 Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 5 The ziggurat, or great tower, of which the Tower of Babel was a famous example. 1908 Expositor May 402 The zikkurats at Erech and Borsippa. 2. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1959 Times 21 Oct. 11/3 The burnished ziggurats of copper saucepans. 1970 Daily Tel. 30 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 26/3 The bags are abandoned, of course, and join the rest of the overkill of trash imagery, now heaped into ziggurats, festooning vegetation, scrawled in livid drifts on the downs. 1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Nov. 761/1 His Dallas Chapel in the form of a spiral ziggurat..borrows quite directly from the ninth-century minaret at Samarra. 1980 Bee Culture July 376 The photograph will give an idea of the real engineering performed to make this temple a ‘ziggurat’ of comb—upward from the base above the regular [honey]combs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1877
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