ziggurats

Meaning of ziggurats

plural noun

(in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9).

from Akkadian ziqqurratu .

Information about ziggurats

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of ziggurats is: ziggurat.
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Hyphenation of ziggurats

zig-gu-rats

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • ziggurats is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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