ancient city on the lower Euphrates River (in what is now central Iraq), the capital of Babylonia: noted for wealth, luxury, and wickedness
See Babylon in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(băbˈə-lən, -lŏnˌ)
The capital of ancient Babylonia in Mesopotamia on the Euphrates River. Established as capital c. 1750 B.C. and rebuilt in regal splendor by Nebuchadnezzar II after its destruction (c. 689 B.C.) by the Assyrians, Babylon was the site of the Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
(băbˈə-lən, -lŏnˌ)
noun
A city or place of great luxury, sensuality, and often vice and corruption.