Definitions for ziggurat

ziggurat zig·gu·rat

Spelling: [zig-oo-rat]
IPA: /ˈzɪg ʊˌræt/

Ziggurat is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in ziggurat (aggirtuz).

Definitions for ziggurat

noun

  1. (among the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians) a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside a broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting the appearance of a series of terraces.

Origin of ziggurat

First recorded in 1875-80, ziggurat is from the Akkadian word ziqquratu

Examples for ziggurat

It rather resembles a group of exaggerated sandhills, rising at one point into a blunt pyramid, the ziggurat.

The inscribed bricks proved that this chamber, like the ziggurat itself was built by Ur-Engur.

Istar of Babylon, grant me an hour wherein I may hold speech with you—here, or without—upon the ziggurat.

Every important city had its temple, and attached to its temple its ziggurat, which was a temple-observatory.

The ziggurat was surrounded by an enclosure, some 400 yards square, the ingress and egress to which was by means of bronze gates.

The ziggurat at Muḳeyyer60 (Ur) excavated by Taylor similarly appears to have been three-storied, or possibly only two-storied.

This is the first known mention of the "horns" of a ziggurat, and the exact meaning of the word is doubtful.

But the things that took place on the ziggurat were invisible to them.

Near this arose the ziggurat or tower, and many smaller buildings, not unlike private dwellings.

The ziggurat at Borsippa had a base of earthwork 272 feet on each side, and was 26 feet high.

Word Value for ziggurat
Scrable

19

Words with friends

22

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