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Definition: Babylonia |
BabyloniaNoun1. An ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where the Prophet Daniel became a counselor to the king). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Babylonia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
Crosswords: Babylonia |
| English words defined with "Babylonia": Accadian ♦ Babylon, Babylonish ♦ Cassite ♦ Elamite ♦ Kassite ♦ Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar II, Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuchadrezzar II ♦ Sumer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Babylonia": Ahasuerus, Ahava, Amraphel ♦ Chaldee's, Chedorlaomer ♦ Rivers of Babylon ♦ Sabiens, Shoa. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Babylonia" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (Babylon, Babylonia, Babylonian, of Babylon). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Babylonia was an ancient state in Mesopotamia (in modern Iraq), combining the territories of Sumer and Akkad. Its capital was Babylon. The earliest mention of Babylon can be found in a tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad, dating back to around 2400 BC.
See also: Babylonia and Assyria, Babylonian law, Babylonian literature and science, Chronology of Babylonia and Assyria
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| "Babylonia" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Babylonia" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 20 | 78,262 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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babylonia | 25 |
ancient babylonia | 6 |
babylonia history | 4 |
babylonia map | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "Babylonia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | Babilonië. (various references) | |
Dutch | Babylonië. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Babilonio. (various references) | |
French | Babylonie. (various references) | |
German | Babylonien. (various references) | |
Greek | 'αβυλωνία (Babel). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Babilónia. (various references) | |
Papiamen | Babilonia. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abyloniabay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Babilônia (Babel, Babylon). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vavilon (babylon). (various references) | |
Swedish | Babylonien. (various references) | |
Thai | อา"าจักรแบบิโลเนีย. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | babylonia, babyloniae, babyloniam. (various references) |
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"Babylonia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: babylonic, Babylonis. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-i-l-n-o-y" | |
-2 letters: nobbily. | |
-3 letters: albino, balboa, bilboa. | |
-4 letters: aboil, aliya, aloin, banal, bialy, bilbo, binal, blain, boyla, inlay, labia, lanai, liana, lobby, nabob, nobby, nobly, noily, nyala. | |
-5 letters: abba, ably, alan, alba, anal, anil, anoa, ayin, baal, baba, baby, bail, bani, blab, blin, blob, boil, bola, bony, inby, inly, lain, lino, liny, lion, loan, loin, nail, naoi, noil, obia, oily, only, yoni. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-b-i-l-n-o-y" | |
+1 letter: abominably. | |
+4 letters: obtainability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 62 79 6C 6F 6E 69 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -... -.--. .-.. --- -. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100010 01111001 01101100 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a b y l o n i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0062 0079 006C 006F 006E 0069 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)366768917881807567 |
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