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What does Babylon mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Babylon? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A city in ancient Mesopotamia built on the banks of the Euphrates, which was the capital of Babylonia.
  2. Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.
  3. (Rastafarian) Western civilization, seen as corrupt and materialistic, and contrasted with Zion.
  4. (Jamaica, MLE) The police.
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It was during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar in the Chaldean dynasty in Babylon that the circle was divided into 360 degrees.
In the Old Babylon version, as well as the Hittite version, Enkidu is raised by the animals and suckled on their milk.
On the left are ranged the presidents of the US, on the right the royal line of Ur and Babylon.
Go south to Sumerian and Babylonian sites, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Borsippar, Nippur, Uruk, Ur, Eridu.
Coming back in from Oyster Bay we changed again at Mineola to a Patchogue train and got off at Babylon.
They are so easily seduced into the great house of Babylon known as the palace.

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