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ziggarat

ziggarat is the alternative spelling of ziggurat.

Meaning of ziggurat

Noun

ziggurat (plural ziggurats)

  1. A temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories
    • It would be uplifting to think that the ziggurat was the first expression of Near Eastern civilization, for then one could speak about humanity's fascination with the heavens, of the human quest for communion with the infinite.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 159
  2. Any building with similar style or shape.
    • He works in an old ziggurat of an office building.

Forms of ziggarat

pluralziggarats

Questions about ziggarat

What is ziggarat the alternative spelling of?
Ziggarat is the alternative spelling of ziggurat.

Words near ziggarat in the dictionary

  1. zigeuner
  2. Zigeuner sauce
  3. zigeuners
  4. ziggaboo
  5. ziggaboos
  6. ziggarat
  7. ziggarats
  8. zigged
  9. zigged when one should have zagged
  10. zigged when one should zag
  11. zigger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ziggarat (page history and authors); ziggurat (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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