Chaldean
pronunciation
How to pronounce Chaldean in British English:
UK [kælˈdi:ən]
How to pronounce Chaldean in American English:
US [kælˈdiən]
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- Noun:
- a wise man skilled in occult learning
- an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to ancient Chaldea or its people or language or culture
Word Origin
- Chaldean (adj.)
- with + -an + Latin Chaldaeus, from Greek Khaldaios, from Aramaic Kaldaie, from Akkadian (mat)Kaldu "the Chaldeans."
Example
- 1. This last five fold division is clearly borrowed from ancient chaldean ideas current in mesopotamia .
- 2. The five rites are the byzantine , alexandrian , antiochene , chaldean , and armenian .
- 3. An ancient region of southern mesopotamia . Settled c.1000b . C. , it reached the height of its power under nebuchadnezzar ii . The chaldean empire was destroyed by persians in539b . C.
- 4. But after that our fathers had provoked the god of heaven unto wrath , he gave them into the hand of nebuchadnezzar the king of babylon , the chaldean , who destroyed this house , and carried the people away into babylon .
- 5. The chaldeans answered before the king and said , there is not a man upon the earth who can declare the matter for the king , because no great king or ruler has ever asked any magician , conjurer , or chaldean for something like this .