Goshen

Go·shen
G2O1S1H4E1N1

proper noun

The Land of Goshen.

Less commonScrabble 10

Meanings

nounGoshen (plural Goshens)

plural Goshens

  1. 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 Monastery
    1 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

  1. Hebrewגשן
  2. EnglishGoshen

From Hebrew גשן.

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