ZIKURAT
- a Babylonian temple tower, also ZIGGURAT, ZIKKURAT [n -S]
- ziggurat (an ancient Babylonian temple tower) [n ZIKURATS]
- (among the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians) a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside a broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting the appearance of a series of