Nebuchadnezzar
[,nebjʊkəd'nezə]
Definition
(noun.) a very large wine bottle holding the equivalent of 20 normal bottles of wine; used especially for display.
(noun.) (Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC).
Edited by Hamilton--From WordNet
Examples
- No Sargon, no Thothmes, no Nebuchadnezzar, no Cyrus nor Alexander nor Chandragupta, was its fountain head. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nebuchadnezzar the Great, on the other hand, marries a daughter of Cyaxares, who has become king of all the Medes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now he was face to face with an inviolate city which had stood siege after siege, which had resisted Nebuchadnezzar the Great for fourteen years. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I believe, if some of you were thrown into Nebuchadnezzar's hottest furnace you would issue forth untraversed by the smell of fire. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She dreamt a dream; and few human beings, from Nebuchadnezzar to the Swaffham tinker, ever dreamt a more remarkable one. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Then when Necho, after pushing as far as the Euphrates, fell before Nebuchadnezzar II, Judah fell with him (604 B.C.). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Jews, who had been the allies of Necho II, were taken into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Edith