ziggurats
Meaning of ziggurats
plural noun
(in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9).
from Akkadian ziqqurratu .
Information about ziggurats
- It is a name.
- The singular form of ziggurats is: ziggurat.
- Languages in which ziggurats is used:
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Hyphenation of ziggurats
zig-gu-rats
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- ziggurats is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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