Babylon
WordNet
noun
(1) The chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia
WiktionaryText
Etymology
Latin Babylōn, from Greek Βαβυλών, from Akkadian bāb ili ‘gate of God’; the name of the ancient Chaldean capital and Biblical city of the Apocalypse.
Proper noun
Babylon
- Capital of Babylonia in the 2nd and 1st century BC.
- Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.
- (Rastafarianism) Term for the so-called white man's civilization.