Meanings
- biblicalThe Land of Goshen.
- A rural community of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A small town in Pike County, Alabama.
- A small city in Washington County, Arkansas.
- A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
- A city, the county seat of Elkhart County, Indiana.
- A small city in Oldham County, Kentucky.
- A town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
- A town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
- A ghost town in Henderson County, Texas.
- A town in Utah County, Utah.
- A small town in Addison County, Vermont.
- A small town in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
- A ghost town and former logging and farming community in Whatcom County, Washington.
- A number of townships, listed under Goshen Township.
- A locality in Break O'Day council area, north eastern Tasmania, Australia.
plural Goshens
- A land of light and plenty.
The possessions of these Abbies were each a sort of Goshen, enjoying the calm light of peace and immunity.
1820, Walter Scott, The Monastery1 more example
Having taken this journey in order to escape the inclemencies I had suffered on the fifty-first parallel, I had hoped, I must confess, to enter a true Goshen on the forty-eighth.
1962, WH Auden; Elizabeth Mayer, translating JW Goethe, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 32
Origin
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