Babylonian
/ˌbabɪˈləʊnɪən
/noun
1An inhabitant of Babylon or Babylonia.Dwarfed by the great empires of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Egyptians, were the Hebrews....
- The later Babylonians, Arameans and Assyrians all assimilated the culture initially prepared by the Sumerians.
- Civilizations like the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians thrived within the nation's borders.
2 [mass noun] The dialect of Akkadian spoken in ancient Babylon.My mother tells me she met a Norwegian archeologist born in Wakefield who speaks ancient Babylonian and has been thrown off digs in Iran and the Gaza Strip....
- In 1844, Rawlinson scaled the almost sheer cliffs of Bisitun, in Persia, copying relief sculptures and their accompanying cuneiform inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian.
- THe point of Babylonian is that few written records of it exist, and it has complete died out as a language, which is strange considering that it was the biggest empire around at the time.
adjective
Relating to Babylon or Babylonia.The palace was never rebuilt after its destruction at the hands of the Babylonian ruler Hammurabi in c. 1759 bc....
- Go south to Sumerian and Babylonian sites, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Borsippar, Nippur, Uruk, Ur, Eridu.
- The early civilizations of Mesopotamia included the Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian empires.
