Usually means: Ancient city, famous for gardens.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word babylon:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Babylon: Merriam-Webster
  2. Babylon, Babylon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Babylon, Babylon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Babylon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Babylon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Babylon, babylon: Wordnik
  7. Babylon: Wiktionary
  8. Babylon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Babylon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Babylon: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Babylon: Dictionary.com
  12. Babylon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Babylon (David Gray song), Babylon (Dr. John album), Babylon (LIRR station), Babylon (Lady Gaga song), Babylon (Mad Men), Babylon (New Testament), Babylon (Skindred album), Babylon (TV series), Babylon (The Tea Party song), Babylon (The X-Files), Babylon (W.A.S.P. album), Babylon (anime), Babylon (ballad), Babylon (band), Babylon (city), Babylon (disambiguation), Babylon (film), Babylon (fortress), Babylon (novel series), Babylon (opera), Babylon (program), Babylon (singer), Babylon (software), Babylon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Babylon: Rhymezone
  15. Babylon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. babylon: FreeDictionary.org
  17. babylon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Babylon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. babylon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  20. Babylon: Merriam-Webster

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABYLON: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Babylon (Iraq), Babylon (city), Babylon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  3. babylon: A Word A Day

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Babylon: Easton Bible
  2. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Babylon: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Babylon, Babylon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

(Note: See babylons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Babylon)

noun:  (historical) An ancient city in Mesopotamia, built on the banks of the Euphrates, which was the capital of Babylonia.
noun:  A governate in Iraq.
noun:  Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.
noun:  (Rastafari) Western civilization, seen as corrupt and materialistic, and contrasted with Zion.
noun:  (Jamaica, MLE) The police.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Fulton County, Illinois, United States.
noun:  A town and village therein, in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States.
noun:  (UK, slang, countable) A female breast.

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