Sodom

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A city or place full of sin and vice.
3. Wadham College, Oxford.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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