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单词 Babylonian
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Definition of Babylonian in English:

Babylonian

noun ˌbabɪˈləʊnɪənˌbæbəˈloʊniən
  • 1An inhabitant of Babylon or Babylonia.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Ancient Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians have also been hailed as the originators of palm-reading.
    • For the Jews this was Yahweh; for the Babylonians, Marduk.
    • These groups included the Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, and Romans.
    • After defeating the Babylonians, Cyrus freed the Jews they had enslaved and rebuilt the first temple in Judah.
    • Civilizations like the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians thrived within the nation's borders.
    • The later Babylonians, Arameans and Assyrians all assimilated the culture initially prepared by the Sumerians.
    • In 426 he attacked the Babylonians of Aristophanes as a slander on the state.
    • How much did it owe to Islam and how much to the earlier heritage of Babylonians, Assyrians and Egyptians.
    • Sumerians and Babylonians employed a sexagesimal number system.
    • The Babylonians made pottery, terra-cotta sculptures, and writing surfaces with the clay they had.
    • The literature of the Assyrians, Babylonians and Sumerians mentions the dog in rapturous phrases.
    • In 538 BC Persian emperor Cyrus defeated the Babylonians and Jews were allowed to return to Jerusalem.
    • The Babylonians had three classes according to the code.
    • Anyone who has studied ancient history at high school can recall the Sumerians, the Assyrians and the Babylonians, and the mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
    • The area later changed hands among Assyrians, Babylonians, and Greeks.
    • I shall not dwell on ancient history, on the conquests of that part of the world by the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Arabs, the Crusaders.
    • The belief in immortality, a belief not to be found in Moses, gradually began to be accepted by the Jews after their bondage by the Egyptians and Babylonians.
    • The ancient Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians and Jews endowed this remarkable plant with holy virtues.
    • The city fell to the Babylonians in c. 587 BC and was extensively destroyed.
    • Dwarfed by the great empires of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Egyptians, were the Hebrews.
  • 2mass noun The dialect of Akkadian spoken in ancient Babylon.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.
    • Thus it is much closer to other Northwest Semitic languages such as Hebrew or Phoenician, than to languages outside that group, such as Arabic or Babylonian.
adjective ˌbabɪˈləʊnɪənˌbæbəˈloʊniən
  • Relating to Babylon or Babylonia.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When Babylonian storytellers told of Gilgamesh, when Homer sang of Odysseus, when Vergil wrote of Aeneas, they were speaking about their first times.
    • The palace was never rebuilt after its destruction at the hands of the Babylonian ruler Hammurabi in c. 1759 bc.
    • Very crudely speaking, these two artefacts bookend the period of Babylonian supremacy in Mesopotamia.
    • Hammurabi the Babylonian law-giver was portrayed with horns on a stele, and so forth.
    • The early civilizations of Mesopotamia included the Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian empires.
    • A Babylonian pillar belonging to Hammurabi's reign has medical rules inscribed on it.
    • Among the Jewish communities sampled, North Africans (Moroccans, etc.) were most closely related to Babylonian Jews.
    • Turkish mountain dogs were bred and recorded in Babylonian times as protectors.
    • Why has Indian civilisation survived over the years, instead of going the way of the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Babylonian civilisations?
    • In the Old Testament, prophets regularly warned God's People against bowing down to the graven images of Baal that so entranced their Phoenician and Babylonian neighbors.
    • Gilgamesh, hero of Babylonian mythology, went on a journey to find Utnapishtin, who had survived the flood.
    • The Hebrew Bible also describes nonviolent resistance to Babylonian and Persian power.
    • In Babylonian myth, Marduk slaughters the serpent Tiamat and makes the sky and the earth from her divided body.
    • The cube-shaped vessel in the Babylonian account of Gilgamesh would be a ridiculously unstable boat that would roll all over the place.
    • The classic example is the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, but there are flood stories among the ancient Greeks, Romans, Chinese and even the Irish.
    • The people in the Babylonian society were ranked and treated according to the Hammurabi's Code.
    • Go south to Sumerian and Babylonian sites, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Borsippar, Nippur, Uruk, Ur, Eridu.
    • The opera that first made him famous, Nabucco, used the Old Testament story of Jews taken captive by the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar.
    • Iraq, situated in the Fertile Crescent of the ancient Babylonian emperors, was a country, populous and wealthy, but torn by ethnic and religious divisions.
    • Before there were Greek, Roman, and British colonies, there was a Babylonian colony in Assyria.

Rhymes

Aberdonian, Amazonian, Apollonian, Baconian, Bostonian, Caledonian, Catalonian, Chalcedonian, Ciceronian, Devonian, draconian, Estonian, Etonian, gorgonian, Ionian, Johnsonian, Laconian, Macedonian, Miltonian, Newtonian, Oregonian, Oxonian, Patagonian, Plutonian, Tennysonian, Tobagonian, Washingtonian
 
 

Definition of Babylonian in US English:

Babylonian

nounˌbæbəˈloʊniənˌbabəˈlōnēən
  • 1An inhabitant of Babylon or Babylonia.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • After defeating the Babylonians, Cyrus freed the Jews they had enslaved and rebuilt the first temple in Judah.
    • These groups included the Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, and Romans.
    • The area later changed hands among Assyrians, Babylonians, and Greeks.
    • Anyone who has studied ancient history at high school can recall the Sumerians, the Assyrians and the Babylonians, and the mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
    • The city fell to the Babylonians in c. 587 BC and was extensively destroyed.
    • Dwarfed by the great empires of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Egyptians, were the Hebrews.
    • Civilizations like the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians thrived within the nation's borders.
    • The later Babylonians, Arameans and Assyrians all assimilated the culture initially prepared by the Sumerians.
    • Sumerians and Babylonians employed a sexagesimal number system.
    • For the Jews this was Yahweh; for the Babylonians, Marduk.
    • The Babylonians made pottery, terra-cotta sculptures, and writing surfaces with the clay they had.
    • Ancient Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians have also been hailed as the originators of palm-reading.
    • The literature of the Assyrians, Babylonians and Sumerians mentions the dog in rapturous phrases.
    • I shall not dwell on ancient history, on the conquests of that part of the world by the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Arabs, the Crusaders.
    • The ancient Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians and Jews endowed this remarkable plant with holy virtues.
    • In 538 BC Persian emperor Cyrus defeated the Babylonians and Jews were allowed to return to Jerusalem.
    • In 426 he attacked the Babylonians of Aristophanes as a slander on the state.
    • How much did it owe to Islam and how much to the earlier heritage of Babylonians, Assyrians and Egyptians.
    • The belief in immortality, a belief not to be found in Moses, gradually began to be accepted by the Jews after their bondage by the Egyptians and Babylonians.
    • The Babylonians had three classes according to the code.
  • 2The dialect of Akkadian spoken in ancient Babylon.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.
    • Thus it is much closer to other Northwest Semitic languages such as Hebrew or Phoenician, than to languages outside that group, such as Arabic or 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.
    • 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.
adjectiveˌbæbəˈloʊniənˌbabəˈlōnēən
  • Relating to Babylon or Babylonia.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In Babylonian myth, Marduk slaughters the serpent Tiamat and makes the sky and the earth from her divided body.
    • Turkish mountain dogs were bred and recorded in Babylonian times as protectors.
    • Iraq, situated in the Fertile Crescent of the ancient Babylonian emperors, was a country, populous and wealthy, but torn by ethnic and religious divisions.
    • In the Old Testament, prophets regularly warned God's People against bowing down to the graven images of Baal that so entranced their Phoenician and Babylonian neighbors.
    • Gilgamesh, hero of Babylonian mythology, went on a journey to find Utnapishtin, who had survived the flood.
    • The cube-shaped vessel in the Babylonian account of Gilgamesh would be a ridiculously unstable boat that would roll all over the place.
    • The people in the Babylonian society were ranked and treated according to the Hammurabi's Code.
    • The early civilizations of Mesopotamia included the Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian empires.
    • Hammurabi the Babylonian law-giver was portrayed with horns on a stele, and so forth.
    • Go south to Sumerian and Babylonian sites, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Borsippar, Nippur, Uruk, Ur, Eridu.
    • A Babylonian pillar belonging to Hammurabi's reign has medical rules inscribed on it.
    • Why has Indian civilisation survived over the years, instead of going the way of the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Babylonian civilisations?
    • Before there were Greek, Roman, and British colonies, there was a Babylonian colony in Assyria.
    • Very crudely speaking, these two artefacts bookend the period of Babylonian supremacy in Mesopotamia.
    • When Babylonian storytellers told of Gilgamesh, when Homer sang of Odysseus, when Vergil wrote of Aeneas, they were speaking about their first times.
    • The classic example is the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, but there are flood stories among the ancient Greeks, Romans, Chinese and even the Irish.
    • The Hebrew Bible also describes nonviolent resistance to Babylonian and Persian power.
    • The opera that first made him famous, Nabucco, used the Old Testament story of Jews taken captive by the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar.
    • The palace was never rebuilt after its destruction at the hands of the Babylonian ruler Hammurabi in c. 1759 bc.
    • Among the Jewish communities sampled, North Africans (Moroccans, etc.) were most closely related to Babylonian Jews.
 
 
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