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(biblical, Quranic) 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. examples
(Oxford University slang, obsolete) Wadham College, Oxford.
plural Sodoms
A city or place full of sin and vice. quotations 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.
1890, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Trumpet Peals, page 92