gomorrha

1. 1.

   (Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Sodom) was destroyed by God for the vice and depravity of its inhabitants

   SynonymsGomorrah

   Broadercity

   Part ofIsrael

   Old Testament

Other forms of gomorrha

plural

gomorrhas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gomorrha

What does gomorrha mean?

gomorrha means "(Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Sodom) was destroyed by God for the vice and depravity of its inhabitants".

How many syllables are in gomorrha?

gomorrha has 3 syllables: go-morr-ha. The stress falls on "go".

What is another word for gomorrha?

Close synonyms include Gomorrah. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gomorrha a common word?

gomorrha is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.