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Apr 15, 2010
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Hanging Gardens of Babylon
A 16th century engraving by Martin Heemskerck
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with Anu GargBabylon
PRONUNCIATION:
(BAB-uh-luhn, -lawn)
MEANING:
noun:
A place of great luxury and extravagance, usually accompanied with vice and
corruption.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Babylon, an ancient city of southwestern Asia, on the Euphrates River.
It was the capital of Babylonia and known for its opulence and culture. It
was the site of Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
USAGE:
"Tsuyoshi Morimoto said that when the economic crisis hit the international
market, many big companies turned to Iraq in hopes that it would save them.
'Big companies talked a lot about Iraq and paid a huge amount of attention
to it. It is just like we suddenly built a Babylon, and now the Babylon is
collapsing.'"Qassim Khidhir; "Don't Expect Too Much From Iraq"; Kurdish Globe (Arbil, Kurdistan); Jan 16, 2010. See more usage examples of babylon in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
A couple of months in the laboratory can save a couple of hours in the library. -Frank H. Westheimer, chemistry professor (1912-2007)
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