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Chaldee

Chaldee is the dated form of Chaldea.

Noun

Chaldee (plural Chaldees)

  1. (dated) Synonym of Chaldean.
    • 'I stopped for one night to see Ur and the Chaldees and for three days in Baghdad with the A.O.C., who happens to be an old friend of mine.'1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 128
    Synonyms:
    Chaldean
  2. A wise individual involved in the occult.

Meaning of Chaldea

Proper noun

Chaldea

  1. (historical) 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.

Adjective

Chaldee (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Synonym of Chaldean.
    Synonyms:
    Chaldean

Proper noun

Chaldee

  1. (dated) The Aramaic language, or Biblical Aramaic specifically.

Synonyms of Chaldee

Forms of Chaldee

pluralChaldees

Origin of Chaldee

From Latin Chaldaea via Middle French Chaldee.

From Latin chaldaeus via Middle French Chaldee.

Questions about Chaldee

What does Chaldee mean?
Chaldee means synonym of Chaldean.
What is Chaldee the dated form of?
Chaldee is the dated form of Chaldea.
What part of speech is Chaldee?
Chaldee can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near Chaldee in the dictionary

  1. Chaldean Catholic Church
  2. Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
  3. Chaldeanism
  4. Chaldeanisms
  5. Chaldeans
  6. Chaldee
  7. Chaldees
  8. Chaldene
  9. chalder
  10. chalders
  11. Chaldia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chaldee (page history and authors); Chaldea (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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