sodom
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
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Definition of sodom
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
name
- A city in the Middle East which, according to the Bible and Islamic tradition, but not specifically named in the Qur'an, was destroyed by God (along with Gomorrah) for the sins of its inhabitants.
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name
- A city in the Middle East which, according to the Bible and Islamic tradition, but not specifically named in the Qur'an, was destroyed by God (along with Gomorrah) for the sins of its inhabitants.
- (obsolete)Wadham College, Oxford.
noun
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A city or place full of sin and vice.
“Take all idea of retribution and punishment out of the hearts and minds of men, and it would not be long before Brooklyn and New York and Boston and Charleston and Chicago became Sodoms.”
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Etymology
Partially from Old English Sodome, Sodoma, partially from Ancient Greek Σόδομα (Sódoma), from the Biblical Hebrew סְדֹם (s'dóm). (Wadham College): Chosen for the rhyme.
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