Explore Chaldea through 6 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like babylonia. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Chaldea meaning
An ancient geographic region of West Asia, in the southern portion of Babylonia in modern eastern Iraq and southwestern Iran, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used to refer to the whole of the Mesopotamian plain.
Synonyms of Chaldea
Using Chaldea
- The main meaning on this page is: An ancient geographic region of West Asia, in the southern portion of Babylonia in modern eastern Iraq and southwestern Iran, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used to refer to the whole of the Mesopotamian plain.
- Useful related words include: chaldaea, geographical area, geographic area, geographical region.
- In the example corpus, chaldea often appears in combinations such as: of chaldea, chaldea and, from chaldea.
Context around Chaldea
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chaldea
- In this selection, "chaldea" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, land, southeastern and harpercollins stand out and add context to how "chaldea" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include elam and chaldea and to and from chaldea the term. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chaldea" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chaldea
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
From Chaldea, the term shedu traveled to the Israelites. (9 words)
Land Chaldea as a name is used in two different senses. (11 words)
The Ancient Greeks and the people from Chaldea (southeastern Mesopotamia) regularly maintained timekeeping records as an essential part of their astronomical observations. (22 words)
The nation of Chaldea in southeast Mesopotamia seems to have disappeared even before the fall of Babylon, and the succeeding Achaemenid Empire did not retain a province or land called Chaldea, and made no mention of a Chaldean race in its annals. (42 words)
This prompted the Assyrian king Sennacherib to invade and subjugate Elam and Chaldea and to sack Babylon, laying waste to and largely destroying the city. (25 words)
The story in progress when she became too ill to write was completed by her sister Ursula Jones: The Islands of Chaldea (HarperCollins, 2014). (24 words)
Example sentences (6)
The nation of Chaldea in southeast Mesopotamia seems to have disappeared even before the fall of Babylon, and the succeeding Achaemenid Empire did not retain a province or land called Chaldea, and made no mention of a Chaldean race in its annals.
From Chaldea, the term shedu traveled to the Israelites.
Land Chaldea as a name is used in two different senses.
The Ancient Greeks and the people from Chaldea (southeastern Mesopotamia) regularly maintained timekeeping records as an essential part of their astronomical observations.
The story in progress when she became too ill to write was completed by her sister Ursula Jones: The Islands of Chaldea (HarperCollins, 2014).
This prompted the Assyrian king Sennacherib to invade and subjugate Elam and Chaldea and to sack Babylon, laying waste to and largely destroying the city.
Common combinations with chaldea
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of chaldea 2×
- chaldea and 2×
- from chaldea 2×