Associations to the word «Gomorrah»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

GOMORRAH, noun. (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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats