CHALDEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chaldea mean? 

• CHALDEA (noun)
  The noun CHALDEA has 2 senses:

1. an ancient region of Mesopotamia lying between the Euphrates delta and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert; settled in 1000 BC and destroyed by the Persians in 539 BC; reached the height of its power under Nebuchadnezzar II

2. an ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king)

  Familiarity information: CHALDEA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHALDEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient region of Mesopotamia lying between the Euphrates delta and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert; settled in 1000 BC and destroyed by the Persians in 539 BC; reached the height of its power under Nebuchadnezzar II

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Chaldaea; Chaldea

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("Chaldea" is a part of...):

Al-Iraq; Irak; Iraq; Republic of Iraq (a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq)

Mesopotamia (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq)

Derivation:

Chaldaean; Chaldean (of or relating to ancient Chaldea or its people or language or culture)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Babylonia; Chaldaea; Chaldea

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Chaldea"):

Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)

Domain region:

Babylon (the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia)

Domain member region:

battle of Cunaxa; Cunaxa (battle in 401 BC when the Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne)

Holonyms ("Chaldea" is a part of...):

Al-Iraq; Irak; Iraq; Republic of Iraq (a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq)

Mesopotamia (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq)

Derivation:

Chaldaean; Chaldean (of or relating to ancient Chaldea or its people or language or culture)