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Definition: Godsend |
GodsendNoun1. A sudden unexpected piece of good fortune. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "godsend" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: GodsendSynonyms: bunce (n), gravy (n), windfall (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Good | Boon; (gift); good turn; blessing; world of good; piece of good luck, piece of good fortune; nuts, prize, windfall, godsend, waif, treasure-trove. |
Prosperity | Noun: prosperity, welfare, well-being; affluence; (wealth); success; thrift, roaring trade; good fortune, smiles of fortune; blessings, godsend. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I think it's a godsend. I mean, you're a detective (Poirot; writing credit: Clive Exton; Anthony Horowitz) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Godsend (2003) The Godsend (1980) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Martin Luther | A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | An assassin, what a godsend! It was the scapegoat, which must never be refused |
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| "Godsend" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Godsend" is used about 76 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 76 | 38,217 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
godsend | 34 |
godsend movie | 11 |
dc talk godsend | 3 |
godsend trailer | 3 |
godsend movie trailer | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "godsend"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dhuratë nga perëndia. (various references) | |
Arabic | مصادفة سعيدة, لقية من عند الله, عطية من الله, عطية الله. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | късмет (cast, chance, fortune, hap, hit, jam, kismet, luck, pudding-bag, score, stroke of luck), божи дар, благодат (benediction, blessing, boon). (various references) | |
Chinese | 天赐. (various references) | |
Czech | požehnání (benediction, blessing, evensong), dar z nebes. (various references) | |
Farsi | چیزخداداده , نعمت غیرمترقبه (Serendipity), خرابی (Decay, Demolition, Destruction, Havoc, Ruin, Ruination, Wrack, Wreck, Wreckage). (various references) | |
French | don du ciel, bénédiction du ciel, aubaine du ciel. (various references) | |
German | geschenk des himmels, Glücksfall (bonanza, lucky chance). (various references) | |
Greek | κελεπούρι (windfall), απροσδόκητο καλό (windfall). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתת אלהים (heavenly gift). (various references) | |
Hungarian | váratlan szerencse (bonanza, piece of luck, score, windfall), szerencsés véletlen, ami kapóra jött. (various references) | |
Italian | fortuna (fortune, luck). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 神の下し給うた物 (heavenly gift), 僥倖 (fortuitous, good fortune, luck, windfall), 棚牡丹 (windfall), 棚ぼた (windfall), 天与 (heaven's gift), 儲物 (a find, good bargain), 儲け物 (a find, good bargain), 与え (gift). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎょうこう (fortuitous, good fortune, Imperial visit, luck, the light of dawn, windfall), たなぼた (windfall), かみのくだしたもうたもの (heavenly gift), あたえ (gift), もうけもの (a find, good bargain), てんよ (heaven's gift). (various references) | |
Manx | toyrtys Yee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | odsendgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | graça divina (blessing), pechincha (bargain, buy, haggle, pickup, trade), dom celeste, dádiva (gift). (various references) | |
Romanian | noroc neprevãzut, dar din cer, chilipir (a bit luck, a piece of luck, bargain, windfall), câştig (advantage, bargain, benefit, boot, catch, draw, earnings, gain, hand, income, increment, lucre, penny, prize, proceeds, profit, return, revenue, share, use, velvet, windfall). (various references) | |
Russian | находка (trouvaille). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | božji dar. (various references) | |
Spanish | regalo celestial, merced divina, mando de dios, bendición (benediction, blessing, boon). (various references) | |
Swedish | gudagåva (gift of the gods). (various references) | |
Turkish | ganimet (booty, capture, loot, pillage, plunder, prize, spoil, trophy), hızır gibi yetişen şey, devlet kuşu, beklenmeyen lütuf. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | удача (bonzer, chance, die, happiness), знахідка (find). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | của trời cho, điều may mắn bất ngờ (windfall). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "godsend": godsends. (additional references) | |
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"Godsend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ghodse, godden, godsent, goldened. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "godsend" (pronounced gÄ"dse'nd) |
| 3 | -e' n d | bookend, boyfriend, dividend, downtrend, girlfriend, hornblende, outspend, overspend, pitchblende, uptrend, weekend. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: dodges, sodden. | |
-2 letters: dodge, doges, dongs, dosed, nodes, nosed, segno, sonde. | |
-3 letters: dens, does, doge, dogs, done, dong, dons, dose, eddo, egos, ends, engs, eons, geds, gens, gods, goes, gone, node, nods, noes, nogs, nose, odds, odes, ones, sego, send, sned, snog, sone, song. | |
-4 letters: den, doe, dog, don, dos, eds, ego, end, eng. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-g-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: dudgeons, godsends. | |
+2 letters: diagnosed, dodginess, resodding, soddening, underdogs, undergods. | |
+3 letters: codesigned, desponding, dodecagons, doggedness, downgrades, gasconaded, goldenrods. | |
+4 letters: bobsledding, decongested, dendrograms, disendowing, dislodgment, disordering, dodginesses, doggonedest, dogsledding, dragonheads, gormandised, outdesigned, undiagnosed. | |
+5 letters: bobsleddings, degradations, dendrologies, dendrologist, disembodying, dislodgement, dislodgments, disorganized, doggednesses, dreadnoughts, misdiagnosed, overdesigned, undergrounds, woodshedding. | |
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