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Editorial note

This reminds me of the stories in The Richest Man in Babylon which had an example just like this.

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Quick take

Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of babylon gathered in one view.

noun

Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.

noun

A governate in Iraq.

noun

An unincorporated community in Fulton County, Illinois, United States.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for babylon.

noun

Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.

noun

A governate in Iraq.

noun

An unincorporated community in Fulton County, Illinois, United States.

noun

A town and village therein, in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States.

Example sentences

This reminds me of the stories in The Richest Man in Babylon which had an example just like this.

The Babylon 5 episode that talmand was referring to was an explicit reference to the Berserker stories.

First of all, babylon.js for instance, has been made specifically for the web.

Note: I'm probably not objective as I'm the co-author of babylon.js;) But I'm sharing my vision.

They are colored crystals in an array, though unlike the scene from 2001 and the Babylon 5 images you found, these are not slotted.

Kosh is a character on the TV show Babylon 5.

Wonder what langauges/frameworks map onto other Babylon 5 concepts?

Moreover, babylon.js is free & open-source.

There is an interesting interview with the producer of Babylon 5 where in theory he is owed 10's of millions because he traded salary for a large slice of whatever profit showed up.

And yes, I have played Fallout too:) Playing it, even with a walkthrough, is like watching a whole set of seasons of Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galactica.

[1] Which is not to say that every waking second was spent working; I covered 6 seasons of Deep Space Nine and 4 seasons of Babylon 5 in a year.

There was a similar notion in a sci-fi show, I believe it was Babylon 5, of a alien probe that would promise superior technology if you could prove your species' intelligence; only to destroy you instead if you passed the test.

Quote examples

That site refers you to "Babylon 8", another installable dictionary which just came out with a Mac version.

I shamelessly stole the "What do you want?" question from the tv show Babylon 5.

Remember that in "Babylon 5" most of aliens were anthropomorphic?

I think JMS said it best in the closing lines of Babylon 5: "we had to create the future, or others will do it for us".

Proper noun examples

Is there a reason that someone would use a Javascript engine like Babylon, Three or PlayCanvas over...

Babylon 5, of course, if you can tolerate the (even for the time) bad CGI.

Last but not least, we have almost finished our Unity exporter to Babylon.js that will dump all the graphics & sounds assets from the Unity scene to our.babylon format.