Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Edition) for babylon
This dictionary provides a designation, usually abbreviated, which describes the boundaries within which a word or sense is or was used, in current OED terminology. There are five categories of labels status (obsolete, rare, colloquial), regional (indicating a geographical area of usage such as the USA),
grammitical (describing the syntactical role of the word or sense such as plural or collective),
semantic (indicating the interpretation given to a word or sense in a particular context)