babylon
IPA: bˈæbʌɫɑn
Root Word: Babylon
noun
- (historical) An ancient city in Mesopotamia, built on the banks of the Euphrates, which was the capital of Babylonia.
- Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.
- (Rastafari) Western civilization, seen as corrupt and materialistic, and contrasted with Zion.
- (Jamaica, MLE) The police.
- An unincorporated community in Fulton County, Illinois, United States.
- A town and village therein, in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States.
- (UK, slang, countable) A female breast.
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Examples of "babylon" in Sentences
- December 12th, 2007 at 4: 29 pm wwbd says: the richest man in babylon
- i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself?
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- As a totally trivial aside the first time I saw babylon 5 my initial impression of the space ships was the Chris Foss look was being heavily used.
- The wispers could also then be either people who are out of phase with current time as a result of an experiment, as it was stated in babylon 5 they are UNstuck in time and drifting from time to time.
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