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.
Meanings
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. 1890, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Trumpet Peals, page 92:
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.
Meanings
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).
(obsolete, qualifier:Oxford University slang) Wadham College, Oxford.
cmn 索多瑪 /索多玛 (city in the Middle East) · hi सदोम (city in the Middle East) · de Sodom (city in the Middle East) · grc Σόδομα (city in the Middle East) · fr Sodome (city in the Middle East) · ru Содо́м (city in the Middle East) · ka სოდომი (city in the Middle East) · it Sodoma (city in the Middle East) · kk Содом (city in the Middle East) · he סְדוֹם (city in the Middle East) · be Садо́м (city in the Middle East) · pt Sodoma (city in the Middle East) · enm Sodome (city in the Middle East) · uk Содо́м (city in the Middle East) · yue 所多瑪 /所多玛 (city in the Middle East) · grc Σόδομα (city in the Middle East) · chr ᏐᏓᎻ (city in the Middle East) · fa سدوم (city in the Middle East) · ar صَدِيم (city in the Middle East) · chr ᏐᏓᎻᏱ (city in the Middle East) · es Sodoma (city in the Middle East) · ca Sodoma (city in the Middle East) · el Σόδομα (city in the Middle East) · hy Սոդոմ (city in the Middle East) · swb Suduma (city in the Middle East) · cmn 所多瑪 /所多玛 (city in the Middle East) · ko 소돔 (city in the Middle East) · fi Sodoma (city in the Middle East) · hu Szodoma (city in the Middle East) · yue 索多瑪 /索多玛 (city in the Middle East) · la Sodoma (city in the Middle East) · pon Sodom (city in the Middle East) · pl Sodoma (city in the Middle East) · gl Sodoma (city in the Middle East) · hak 所多瑪 /所多玛 (city in the Middle East) · ja ソドム (city in the Middle East) · my သောဒုံမြို့ (city in the Middle East) · tr Sodom (city in the Middle East) · nan-hbl 所多瑪 /所多玛 (city in the Middle East) · ar سَدُوم (city in the Middle East) · et Soodom (city in the Middle East)