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HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Hanging Gardens of Babylon mean?
• HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON (noun)
The noun HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON has 1 sense:
1. a terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates; construction attributed to Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC
Familiarity information: HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates; construction attributed to Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Instance hypernyms:
garden (a plot of ground where plants are cultivated)
Holonyms ("Hanging Gardens of Babylon" is a part of...):
Babylon (the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia)
Holonyms ("Hanging Gardens of Babylon" is a member of...):
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; Seven Wonders of the World (impressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe)
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