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Ziggurat

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Noun

1. ziggurat, zikkurat, zikurat

a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ziggurat

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noun
a type of rectangular temple tower or tiered mound erected by the Sumerians, Akkadians, and Babylonians in Mesopotamia. The tower of Babel is thought to be one of these

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Ziggurat

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noun
a temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, in the form of a terraced pyramid with each story smaller than the one below it
: also ˈzikkurat (ˈzɪkʊræt ; zikˈoorat)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ziggurat

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n.
A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

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