MESOPOTAMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mesopotamia mean? 

• MESOPOTAMIA (noun)
  The noun MESOPOTAMIA has 1 sense:

1. the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq

  Familiarity information: MESOPOTAMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MESOPOTAMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Mesopotamia"):

Babylon (the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia)

Babylonia; Chaldaea; Chaldea (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))

Chaldaea; Chaldea (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)

Assyria (an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq)

Domain member region:

Apsu (father of the gods and consort of Tiamat)

Tiamat ((Akkadian) mother of the gods and consort of Apsu)

Sin ((Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna)

Ningal ((Akkadian) a goddess; wife of the Moon god Sin)

Nergal ((Akkadian) god ruling with his consort Ereshkigal the world of the dead)

Namtar; Namtaru (a demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind)

Eresh-kigal; Ereshkigal; Ereshkigel (goddess of death and consort of Nergal)

Ea (the Babylonian god of wisdom; son of Apsu and father of Marduk; counterpart of the Sumerian Enki; as one of the supreme triad including Anu and Bel he was assigned control of the watery element)

Dagan (god of agriculture and earth; counterpart of Phoenician Dagon)

Aruru (mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic; identified with Sumerian Ki and Ninkhursag)

Akkadian (an ancient branch of the Semitic languages)

Babylon (the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia)

Assyrian; Assyrian Akkadian (an extinct language of the Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia)

Holonyms ("Mesopotamia" is a part of...):

Al-Iraq; Irak; Iraq; Republic of Iraq (a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq)