Babylon (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. an ancient city of SW Asia, on the Euphrates River, famed for its magnificence and culture: capital of Babylonia and later of the Chaldean empire.
  2. any rich and magnificent city believed to be a place of excessive luxury and wickedness.
  3. a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
noun
  1. the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia: first settled around 3000 bc
  2. (in Protestant polemic) the Roman Catholic Church, regarded as the seat of luxury and corruption
  3. any society or group in a society considered as corrupt or as a place of exile by another society or group, esp White Britain as viewed by some West Indians
Babylon (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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