babylon
babylon Lexical Profile
• noun
An ancient city in Mesopotamia located along the Euphrates River in present-day Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq, which served as the capital of the Babylonian Empire and was renowned for its monumental architecture and wealth.
Any large, wealthy, or luxurious city or society viewed as a place of excessive materialism, moral corruption, or sensual indulgence.
"The novelist depicted the modern metropolis as a new Babylon consumed by greed and spectacle."
In Rastafarian theology and reggae culture, any oppressive, corrupt, or materialistic Western political and economic system, or the police and state authorities that enforce it.
"Many classic reggae songs use the imagery of chanting down Babylon to protest social injustice."
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