Word

Chaldea, n.

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)
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Babylonia Chaldaea Chaldea

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

Chaldaean Chaldean

semantic pointers

member of this domain (region)

Cunaxa, battle of Cunaxa

instance hypernym

geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region

part holonym

Iraq, Republic of Iraq, Al-Iraq, Irak Mesopotamia

domain of synset (region)

Babylon

part meronym

Sumer

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
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Chaldaea Chaldea