Sodom and Gomorrah en · NOUN
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Etymology
From the names of the cities in the Middle East which, according to the Hebrew Bible and to Islamic tradition, were destroyed by God for the sins of their inhabitants. More at Sodom and Gomorrah.
Meanings
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(figuratively) A city or place full of sin and vice.
Pattaya has a reported 27,000 prostitutes, roughly one for every five people living permanently in the east-coast city that has been likened to a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah.
2017 February 16, Chris Baynes, “Inside the world's sex capital: City dubbed ‘modern day Sodom and Gomorrah’ with highest number of prostitutes anywhere”, in Daily Mirror:
Translations (7)
chr ᏐᏓᎻᏱ ᎠᎴ ᎪᎹᎵᏱ (Translations) · es Sodoma y Gomorra (Translations) · chr ᏐᏓᎻ ᎠᎴ ᎪᎹᎵ (Translations) · hi सदोम और अमोरा (Translations) · pt Sodoma e Gomorra (Translations) · de Sodom und Gomorrha (Translations) · cmn 所多瑪與蛾摩拉 /所多玛与蛾摩拉 (Translations)