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zigurat

zigurat 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 zigurat

pluralzigurats

Questions about zigurat

What is zigurat the alternative spelling of?
Zigurat is the alternative spelling of ziggurat.

Words near zigurat in the dictionary

  1. Zigua
  2. Ziguan
  3. Zigui
  4. Ziguinchor
  5. Zigula
  6. zigurat
  7. zigurats
  8. zigzag
  9. zigzag clover
  10. zigzag railway
  11. zigzag railways

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zigurat (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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