Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun babylonian_captivity

1 sense of babylonian captivity

Sense 1
Babylonian Captivity -- (the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC)
       INSTANCE OF=> exile, deportation, expatriation, transportation -- (the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life")