Babylonian

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Of or relating to Babylonia or Babylon or their people, culture, or language.
2. adj. Characterized by a luxurious, pleasure-seeking, and often immoral way of life.
3. n. A native or inhabitant of Babylon or Babylonia.
4. n. The form of Akkadian used in Babylonia.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Pertaining to Babylon, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia, or to the kingdom itself. Ruins of the city, in the form of three large mounds, exist near Hillah on the Euphrates, about 64 miles south of Bagdad on the Tigris.
2. Like the confusion of tongues at Babel (= Babylon); mixed; confused.
3. Popish. Scarlet.
4. n. An inhabitant of Babylonia; a Chaldean.
5. n. An astrologer: so used from the fact that the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
6. n. A Papist. See I., 3.
7. Figuratively, the term of years (1309–76) during which the papal court was at Avignon.
8. n. A variety of ball game played with a large ball called a medicine-ball.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Of or pertaining to the real (or to the mystical) Babylon
2. adj. Of or pertaining to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldea.
3. n. An inhabitant of the city of Babylon.
4. n. An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
5. n. An astrologer; so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
6. n. The extinct Akkadian (includes Babylonian and Assyrian diatects) language.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.
2. n. An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
3. n. An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written
2. adj. of or relating to the city of Babylon or its people or culture
3. n. an inhabitant of ancient Babylon