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(archaeology) A templetower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 159:
It would be uplifting to think that the ziggurat was the first expression of Near Eastern civilization, for then one could speak about humanity's fascination with the heavens, of the human quest for communion with the infinite.
Any building with similar style or shape.
He works in an old ziggurat of an office building.
