Hanging Gardens Of Babylon

Definition: Hanging Gardens Of Babylon

Hanging Gardens Of Babylon

Noun

1. Terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates; construction attributed to Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC; one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

Specialty Definitions: Hanging Gardens Of Babylon

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Literature	Hanging Gardens of Babylon Four acres of garden raised on a base supported by pillars, and towering in terraces one above another 300 feet in height. At a distance they looked like a vast pyramid covered with trees. This mound was constructed by Nebuchadnezzar to gratify his wife Amytis, who felt weary of the flat plains of Babylon, and longed for something to remind her of her native Median hills. One of the "seven wonders of the world." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (also known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis) and the walls of Babylon were considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World were both supposedly built by Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC (present Iraq) although there is doubt as to whether or not they had a physical existence.

The Hanging Gardens are extensively documented by Greek historians such as Strabo and Diodorus Siculus, yet little evidence for their existence other than some (circumstantial) evidence gathered at the excavation of the palace at Babylon has been accrued to substantiate what look like fanciful descriptions.

Gardens of Semiramis as imagined at the beginning of XX century

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Seven Wonders of the World: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Modern Usage: Hanging Gardens Of Babylon

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Screenplays	Hanging gardens of Babylon, perhaps; herds of wildebeests flowing majestically (Fawlty Towers; writing credit: John Cleese; Connie Booth)
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Modern Translations: Hanging Gardens Of Babylon

Language		Translations for "hanging gardens of babylon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		anginghay ardensgay ofay abylonbay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.