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What does Babylon mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Babylon? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A city in ancient Mesopotamia built on the banks of the Euphrates, which was the capital of Babylonia.
  2. Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.
  3. (Rastafarian) Western civilization, seen as corrupt and materialistic, and contrasted with Zion.
  4. (Jamaica, MLE) The police.
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Go south to Sumerian and Babylonian sites, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Borsippar, Nippur, Uruk, Ur, Eridu.
From beneath mounds of sand and debris, Babylon and Nineveh were exposed to view together with whole libraries of clay cuneiform tablets.
Ancient Babylon, with its glistening towers and lavish horticultural cascades, must once have inspired similar reverential whispers.
At Babylon there is a famous basalt statue of a man being mauled by a lion.
All people should have dreadlocks because nobody has ever said to wash your hair but Babylon.
The Babylon acted swiftly and managed to find one of the suspects by fingerprinting.

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