Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of one of the primitive races of Babylonia.
  • noun The language of this race; Accadian. Also spelled Akkad.

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  • proper noun Alternative spelling of Akkad.

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Examples

  • Babylon is called Accad, many people envy his wealthy, so to him to consult your road to riches.

    VInvesting.com 2010

  • There is ground to conclude that they came down from mountains in the fact that the name "Accad" means "Mountains" or "Highlands," a name which they could not possibly have taken in the dead flats of Lower Chaldea, but must have retained as a relic of an older home.

    Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria 1879

  • And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • "Although purpose has always been part of my instinct, it is only recently that I have raised it to a level of conscious and systematic focus," Accad says.

    The Power Of Purpose Saj-nicole Joni 2006

  • And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

    Genesis 10. 1999

  • And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Member of the Accad. di Medicina, Turin, 1961; Indian Acad.

    Ragnar Granit - Biography 1972

  • G. Grassi and R. Feletti, Contribuz. allo studio dei parassiti malarici, Atti Accad.

    Alphonse Laveran - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • Even during the Turanian period, before the Semites had entered the land, one or more of these collections existed in each of the chief cities of Accad and Shumir.

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

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