Definitions for Babylon

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Babylon Bab·y·lon

Spelling: [bab-uh-luh n, -lon]

IPA: /ˈbæb ə lən, -ˌlɒn/

Babylon is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in Babylon (abblnoy).

Definitions for Babylon

noun

1. an ancient city of SW Asia, on the Euphrates River, famed for its magnificence and culture: capital of Babylonia and later of the Chaldean empire.
2. any rich and magnificent city believed to be a place of excessive luxury and wickedness.
3. a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
4. an ancient empire in SW Asia, in the lower Euphrates valley: its greatest period was 2800–1750 b.c. Capital: Babylon.

Examples for Babylon

The prophet Daniel speaks more than once of the magicians of Babylon.

The Israelites were carried off to Babylon, where they wept by the waters.

It reminds me, a captive by the waters of Babylon, that God is ever with the friendless.

The many glories of Babylon, for example, lay unexplored not far from the boundaries of Baghdad.

Because if we are to join him at all, we must march right past Babylon itself.

Like the handwriting on the wall in Babylon, it had taken place in silence.

O daughter of Babylon… Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

But Babylon asks us to do a little more: It wants us to empathize.

Read Psalm 137, the one that was turned into the catchy reggae song “Rivers of Babylon.”

But Babylon was made into one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.