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Gomorrah
[ guh-mawr-uh, -mor-uh ]
noun
- Also Douay Bible, Gomorrha. (in the Bible) an ancient city destroyed, with Sodom, because of its wickedness.
- any extremely wicked place.
Gomorrah
/ ɡəˈmɒrə /
noun
- Old Testament one of two ancient cities near the Dead Sea, the other being Sodom, that were destroyed by God as a punishment for the wickedness of their inhabitants (Genesis 19:24)
- any place notorious for vice and depravity
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Derived Forms
- Goˈmorrean, adjective
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Other Words From
- Go·mor·re·an adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Gomorrah1
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Example Sentences
I like to think of Shooters as Sodom and Gomorrah, reimagined for the modern world.
Max Blumenthal, author of the just-published Republican Gomorrah, asks: Did he remain so even after it became a hate group?
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To the pious when such things could be done with impunity it seemed as if they were living in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Perhaps this part of the story is only a figure of rhetoric to express the horrible lewdness of Sodom and of Gomorrah.
It cites the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the Deluge as examples of the world's end.
Whether these might be the pits at which the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown by the four kings, I will not determine.
A few miles of such a p. 137place, and London were a Sodom and Gomorrah.
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