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BABYLON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Meronyms (parts of "Babylon"):
Hanging Gardens of Babylon (a terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates; construction attributed to Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC)
Babel; Tower of Babel ((Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another)
Domain region:
Mesopotamia (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq)
Domain member region:
Tashmit; Tashmitum (consort of Nabu)
Shamash (the chief sun god; drives away winter and storms and brightens the earth with greenery; drives away evil and brings justice and compassion)
Sarpanitu; Zarpanit; Zirbanit (consort of Marduk)
Ninib; Ninurta (a solar deity; firstborn of Bel and consort was Gula; god of war and the chase and agriculture; sometimes identified with biblical Nimrod)
Ningishzida (an underworld Babylonian deity; patron of medicine)
Ningirsu (Babylonian god in older pantheon: god of war and agriculture)
Nina (the Babylonian goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea)
Nabu; Nebo (Babylonian god of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools)
Baal Merodach; Bel-Merodach; Marduk; Merodach (the chief Babylonian god; his consort was Sarpanitu)
Kishar (Babylonian consort of Anshar; in Sumerian the name signifies 'the totality of the lower world')
Gula (the Babylonian goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta)
Girru (the Babylonian god of fire; often invoked in incantations against sorcery)
Damgalnunna; Damkina ((Babylonian) earth goddess; consort of Ea and mother of Marduk)
Bel (Babylonian god of the earth; one of the supreme triad including Anu and Ea; earlier identified with En-lil)
Ishtar; Mylitta (Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte)
Anunnaki; Enuki (any of a group of powerful Babylonian earth spirits or genii; servitors of the gods)
Anu (Babylonian god of the sky; one of the supreme triad including Bel and Ea)
Antum (Babylonian consort of Anu)
Anshar (the Babylonian father of the gods; identified with Assyrian Ashur; in Sumerian the name signifies 'the totality of the upper world')
Adapa (a Babylonian demigod or first man (sometimes identified with Adam))
Adad (Babylonian god of storms and wind)
Babylonia; Chaldaea; Chaldea (an ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king))
Babylonian (the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written)
Holonyms ("Babylon" is a part of...):
Mesopotamia (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq)
Derivation:
Babylonian (of or relating to the city of Babylon or its people or culture)
