Babylonian

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 专有名词
中文释义
英 /bæbɪˈləʊnɪ.ən/    美 /bæbɪˈloʊnɪ.ən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An inhabitant of the city of Babylon.
  2. An inhabitant of Babylonia, which included Chaldea; a Chaldean.
  3. An astrologer; so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to the city of Babylon, or the Babylonian Empire. historical,not-comparable
  2. Roman Catholic (with reference to e.g. Revelation 14–18). derogatory,not-comparable,obsolete
    — [W]e, on our parts, have learned to speak only the primitive language of the law, and not the confused jargon of their Babylonian pulpits.
  3. Characteristic of Babylon or its civilization and inhabitants; huge, decadent, indulgent. . figuratively,not-comparable
    — The first was in the Babylonian halls of the big hotel, which was the meeting place of the three commercial magnates concerned with arranging for a coal lock-out and denouncing it as a coal strike,
专有名词
  1. A later form of the Akkadian language spoken in Babylonia from 1950 BCE to 100 CE.

词形变化

Babylonians plural

词源

词源 1
From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an. By surface analysis, Babylon + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Babelian.
词源 2
From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an. By surface analysis, Babylon + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Babelian.
词源 3
From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an. By surface analysis, Babylon + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Babelian.
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