goshen
/ɡˈoʊʃɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.64 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
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The Land of Goshen.
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A rural community of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Example Sentences
- "The possessions of these Abbies were each a sort of Goshen, enjoying the calm light of peace and immunity."
- "Having taken this journey in order to escape the inclemencies I had suffered on the fifty-first parallel, I had hoped, I must confess, to enter a true Goshen on the forty-eighth."
Etymology
From Hebrew גשן.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: גשן