CHALDEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chaldean mean? 

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

1. a wise man skilled in occult learning

2. an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea

  Familiarity information: CHALDEAN used as a noun is rare.

• CHALDEAN (adjective)
  The adjective CHALDEAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to ancient Chaldea or its people or language or culture

  Familiarity information: CHALDEAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHALDEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wise man skilled in occult learning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Chaldaean; Chaldean; Chaldee

Hypernyms ("Chaldean" is a kind of...):

occultist (a believer in occultism; someone versed in the occult arts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An inhabitant of ancient Chaldea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Chaldaean; Chaldean; Chaldee

Hypernyms ("Chaldean" is a kind of...):

Semite (a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa)

Derivation:

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

• CHALDEAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to ancient Chaldea or its people or language or culture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Chaldaean; Chaldean; Chaldee

Pertainym:

Chaldea (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)

Derivation:

Chaldea (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))

Chaldea (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)

Chaldean (an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea)

 Context examples 

A collective term used to identify indigenous peoples of northern Iraq and neighboring areas of Syria and Turkey, who also identify themselves as Aramaeans and Chaldeans.

(Assyrian, NCI Thesaurus)

The ancient Cornish language had also arrested his attention, and he had, I remember, conceived the idea that it was akin to the Chaldean, and had been largely derived from the Phœnician traders in tin.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now, my dear Watson, I think we may dismiss the matter from our mind and go back with a clear conscience to the study of those Chaldean roots which are surely to be traced in the Cornish branch of the great Celtic speech.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)