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say it: bab-uh-LOH-nee-uhn
babylonian is a noun and adjective meaning "an inhabitant of ancient Babylon". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written
Babylon
of or relating to the city of Babylon or its people or culture
“Babylonian religion”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for babylonian come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.