Sodom

名词 n. 专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˈsɒ.dəm/    美 /ˈsɑ.dəm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A city or place full of sin and vice.
    — Take all idea of retribution and punishment out of the hearts and minds of men, and it would not be long before Brooklyn and New York and Boston and Charleston and Chicago became Sodoms.
专有名词
  1. A city in the Middle East which, according to the Bible and Islamic tradition (but not specifically named in the Qur'an), was destroyed by God (along with Gomorrah) for the sins of its inhabitants (especially the implied homosexuality of the men).
  2. Wadham College, Oxford. obsolete

词形变化

Sodoms plural

词汇关系

衍生词
apple of Sodom Sea of Sodom Sodom and Gomorrah Sodom apple Sodom egg-plant Sodom-fruit Sodomic Sodomite sodomize vine of Sodom
相关词
sodomise sodomist sodomite sodomy

词源

词源 1
Partially from Old English Sodome, Sodoma, partially from Ancient Greek Σόδομα (Sódoma), from the Biblical Hebrew סְדֹם (s'dóm).
(Wadham College): Chosen for the rhyme.
词源 2
Partially from Old English Sodome, Sodoma, partially from Ancient Greek Σόδομα (Sódoma), from the Biblical Hebrew סְדֹם (s'dóm).
(Wadham College): Chosen for the rhyme.
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