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
- Then the two travel on to Babylon.
- Babylon the recognized figure of Rome.
- Homily on the Child Saints of Babylon.
- Babylon is both historical and mythological.
- The people of the earth mourn Babylon's destruction.
- Babylon was occupied, and Babylonia reduced to vassalage.
- Gog has also been identified as a cryptogram for Babel or Babylon.
- They are the offspring of one idolatrous fountainhead, ancient Babylon.
- After the death of Alexander, Archon was chosen as a satrap of Babylon.
- A second branch turned south east to Babylon via the Babylon extension.
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