This week’s theme
Biblical people and places that became words

This week’s words
Goshen
christen
Sodom
Rechabite
tower of Babel

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(SAHD/SOD-uhm)

MEANING:

noun: A place considered to be full of wickedness and sin.

ETYMOLOGY:

After the biblical city of Sodom. In the biblical account, Sodom and Gomorrah were sinful places, so Yahweh rained fire and brimstone (sulfur) upon them. Earliest documented use: 1550.

USAGE:

“No amount of iPod emporia can save Regent Street from what it has become: a Sodom of the crassest commercialism.”
Stephen Bayley; “Once a Masterpiece, Now a Sodom of Commercialism”; The Independent on Sunday (London, UK); Jun 26, 2005.

See more usage examples of Sodom in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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