Chaldee

See also: chaldee and Chaldée

English

Adjective

Chaldee

  1. Of or relating to Chaldea, the Chaldeans, or Chaldean culture.

Noun

Chaldee (plural Chaldees)

  1. A Chaldean; a native of ancient Chaldea.
    • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 128:
      '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.'
  2. A wise individual involved in the occult.

Proper noun

Chaldee

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

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