Gomorrah Definition

gə-môrə, -mŏrə
noun
A wicked or depraved place.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • Gomorrha
pronoun

(biblical, quranic) A city in the Middle East which, according to the Bible and the Qur'an, was destroyed by the Hebrew God (along with Sodom) for the sins of its inhabitants.

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Origin of Gomorrah

  • After Gomorrah

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Gomorrah Sentence Examples

  • It was in this district that the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were situated.

  • The judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah (which of course they believed to be under the waters of the lake, in accordance with the absurd theory first found in Josephus and still often repeated) blinded these good pilgrims to the ever-fresh beauty of this most lovely lake, whose blue and sparkling waters lie deep between rocks and precipices of unsurpassable grandeur.

  • The bottom line is that the biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah is a mythical story based on the usual archetype of celestial catastrophism.

  • The LORD sent a rain of burning sulfur down from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed those cities.

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