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zikkurat

zikkurat 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 zikkurat

pluralzikkurats

Questions about zikkurat

What is zikkurat the alternative spelling of?
Zikkurat is the alternative spelling of ziggurat.

Words near zikkurat in the dictionary

  1. Zikas
  2. zikat
  3. Zikawei
  4. Zike
  5. Zikes
  6. zikkurat
  7. zikkurats
  8. zikr
  9. Zikri
  10. Zikris
  11. zikrs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zikkurat (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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