Babylonian UK /bæbɪˈləʊnɪ.ən/US /bæbɪˈloʊnɪ.ən/adjective 3noun 3forms 1 adjective3 •(historical) Pertaining to the city of Babylon, or the Babylonian Empire. •(figurative) Characteristic of Babylon or its civilization and inhabitants; huge, decadent, indulgent. .The first was in the Babylonian halls of the big hotel, which was the meeting place of the three commercial magnates concerned with arranging for a coal lock-out and denouncing it as a coal strike, — 1926 •(offensive, no longer used) Roman Catholic (with reference to e.g. Revelation 14–18).[W]e, on our parts, have learned to speak only the primitive language of the law, and not the confused jargon of their Babylonian pulpits. — 1790 noun3 •An inhabitant of the city of Babylon. •An inhabitant of Babylonia, which included Chaldea; a Chaldean. •An astrologer; so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology. formsBabylonians
