manna from heaven

Questions about manna from heaven

What is another word for manna from heaven?

It depends which manna from heaven you mean. In the sense “(Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus”, the synonyms are miraculous food, manna. Across all 2 senses there are 9 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of manna from heaven?

WordNet records no antonym for manna from heaven. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Why are the synonyms for manna from heaven split into groups?

Because manna from heaven carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for manna from heaven come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of manna from heaven

• Full entry for manna from heavenAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for manna from heavenWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.