hanging gardens of babylon

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   a terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates; construction attributed to Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC

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Questions about hanging gardens of babylon

What does hanging gardens of babylon mean?

hanging gardens of babylon means "a terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates; construction attributed to Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC".

Is hanging gardens of babylon a common word?

hanging gardens of babylon 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.