Chaldean (also Chaldaean or Chaldee) may refer to:
Language
- an old name for the Aramaic language, particularly Biblical Aramaic
- Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, a modern Aramaic language
- Chaldean script, a variant of the Syriac alphabet
People
- Ancient Chaldeans, ancient Semitic people in southern Mesopotamia
- Modern Chaldeans, modern self-identification of Chaldean Catholics
Places
- Chaldea, an ancient region whose inhabitants were known as Chaldeans
- Neo-Babylonian Empire, also called the Chaldean Empire
- Chaldean Town, a neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Religion
- Chaldean Catholics, adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church
- Chaldean Catholic Church, Eastern Rite Catholic Church in full communion with the Catholic Church
- Chaldean Rite, the East Syriac Rite of the Chaldean Catholics
- Chaldean Oracles, texts widely used by Neoplatonist philosophers from 3rd to 6th centuries AD; referred to by some of the Christian Church Fathers
- Chaldean Syrian Church, title used for the Assyrian Church of the East in India
Other
- Chaldean (horse) (foaled 2020), Thoroughbred racehorse
See also
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