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)