Chaldee
English
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editChaldee
Noun
editChaldee (plural Chaldees)
- 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.'
- A wise individual involved in the occult.
Proper noun
editChaldee
- (dated) The Aramaic language, or Biblical Aramaic specifically.