babylonia

Other forms of babylonia

plural

babylonias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about babylonia

What does babylonia mean?

babylonia means "an ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king)".

How many syllables are in babylonia?

babylonia has 5 syllables and divides as ba-by-lo-ni-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for babylonia?

Close synonyms include Chaldaea, Chaldea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is babylonia a common word?

babylonia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.