Gomorrah

[ guh-mawr-uh, -mor-uh ]

/ gəˈmɔr ə, -ˈmɒr ə /

noun

Also Douay Bible, Go·mor·rha. an ancient city destroyed, with Sodom, because of its wickedness. Gen. 19:24, 25.

any extremely wicked place.

OTHER WORDS FROM Gomorrah

Go·mor·re·an, adjective

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But not a man was in sight till we got to a village which looked like Gomorrah the day after it happened.

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He acquired among them a reputation as the one righteous American in their California Gomorrah.

Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI. No. 23. |Various

Gomorrah, the right bank, was the region of vice, license and dishonesty.

Two banks of the Seine |Fernand Vandrem
You cannot wake up the people of Gomorrah with the gospel of peace.

Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians |Martin Luther
Gomorrah would have been saved had it contained ten men like this one.

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British Dictionary definitions for gomorrah

Gomorrah

Gomorrha

/ (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

Derived forms of Gomorrah

Gomorrean or Gomorrhean, adjective

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Gomorrha

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