pisgah
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.15 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
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Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina, United States.
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A town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States.
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A city in Harrison County, Iowa.
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Example Sentences
- "Although the development of this work, complex and compelling in its own right, lies beyond the scope of the present study, a “Pisgah view” of Billy Budd[…] discloses its presentation, among many other things, of a sharply drawn retrospective allegory of Melville’s rhetorical career."
- "—With swimming glance, Like him who erst from Pisgah's cliff descried The unenter'd land of promise,—he survey'd That emerald shore where slept in hallow'd graves His ancestors, where rose in beauteous strength The city of his joy,—"
- "On Pisgah, Moses surveyed the whole land of Canaan, and although he was advantaged by the height of the place and the clearness of his eyes,[…] yet much of miracle must needs be admitted in so plain and far discovery."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: פסגּה