Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🏺 Ancient Mesopotamian ⛪ Eastern Christian 👤 Person from Chaldea 🔮 Ancient astrologer
Chaldean

Chaldean

1 9.8
A Christian who belongs to a Catholic church from Iraq
  • noun
  • /kælˈdiːən/
translation icon : caldeo
  • By long-standing tradition, the Kurds, Turkomans, Chaldeans, and Jews have had their own cemeteries.
  • Assyrians and Chaldeans
  • Armenians and Chaldeans

Examples

  • There are also non-ethnic Christians in Iran (other than Armenians, Assyrians, and Chaldeans).

    Academic text (2007)

  • Ethnic Armenians, Assyrians, and Chaldeans have tried to either prevent Muslims from entering or distance themselves from those who attend.

    Academic text (2007)

  • You are Chaldean, and you are a virgin.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Brazilians go to NYC, London, and LA. Chaldeans in San Diego. Irish to London and NYC (and probably every other big US city).

    Blog text (34)

  • The composition of the Christian population is made up of ethnic Armenians (mostly Apostolic, with smaller groups of Protestant and Catholic), Assyrians, and Chaldeans.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Until 1955, Kirkuk had just one high school, and the majority of the students had Kurdish and Turkoman backgrounds, with smaller numbers of Arabs, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Armenians.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Many Chaldeans have settled in the United States after fleeing persecution in Iraq.

  • The Chaldean community in Detroit celebrates its heritage with vibrant cultural festivals.

  • Chaldeans are known for their rich traditions and strong sense of community among Iraqi Catholics.

Surface Forms

Chaldean singular
Chaldeans plural

Etymology

Chaldean is also the name used by a Christian community that kept the old regional name Chaldea for their church. So a Chaldean can mean a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church, an Eastern Christian group originally from Iraq.