Sodom and Gomorrah

English 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. Pronunciation en en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Sodom and Gomorrah.wav US Noun ? en metaphor A city or place full of sin and vice. en Inside the world's sex capital: City dubbed ‘modern day Sodom and Gomorrah’ with highest number of prostitutes anywhere Feb 16 2017 w:Daily Mirror Chris Baynes https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/inside-worlds-sex-capital-city-9834233 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260829102254/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/inside-worlds-sex-capital-city-9834233 29 August 2026 Translations Cherokee: chr ᏐᏓᎻ ᎠᎴ ᎪᎹᎵ, chr ᏐᏓᎻᏱ ᎠᎴ ᎪᎹᎵᏱ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 所多瑪與蛾摩拉 Suǒduōmǎ yǔ Émólà German: de Sodom und Gomorrha Hindi: hi सदोम और अमोरा Portuguese: pt Sodoma e Gomorra Spanish: es Sodoma y Gomorra f Verb en rhyming slang To borrow. Further reading vs66d7i v en coordinated pairs terms derived from the Bible terms derived from toponyms