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godsend
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Word definitions for godsend in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed lik an assembly line" [syn: boom , bonanza , ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An unexpected good fortune or benefit; a windfall.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814, "a shipwreck" (from the perspective of people living along the coast), from Middle English Godes sonde (c.1200) "God's messenger; what God sends, gift from God, happening caused by God," from god + Middle English sonde "that which is sent, message," ...
Usage examples of godsend.
The army of the Ancestress ran after us, and the diversion was a godsend to Cut-Off-Their-Balls Wang, who emerged from the bushes and gathered his men and began stealing everything in sight, and confusion degenerated into chaos.
The old man named him Godsend and moved their home deeper into the jungle, far from anyone who might come to claim the child and take him away.
Still a small child, Godsend skilled himself in hunting with bow-and-arrow and spear as well as snare, and in making fire with firesticks, and in working metal, and in truth proved a Godsend for an old blind man growing older and feebler.
Godsend was yet a stripling he thought to give the old man back his sight, for Godsend had studied the animals he caught and had learned the workings of bone and muscle and tissue and blood.
Godsend forged a fine sharp blade, and the old man chewed a herb and put himself to sleep, and Godsend cut away the clouded lenses.
But out of bitterness and pride Godsend also vowed that he would create for himself here in the jungle something much more than mere self-sufficiency.
As a former space cop, he saw HazMat as a godsend, not a potential problem.
Such a wreck as that which then went ashore on the Hen-and-Chicken Shoals was a godsend to the poor and needy settlers in the wilderness where so few good things ever came.
His presence was a godsend if it had such a reassuring effect on her mother.
She had sent that she always thought of Rose Watson as she but it was a godsend, because the children could sit on it near the fire and keep warm.
It will be a godsend to me, this arrangement, and of course after the year is up she can come back.
He wrote a similar warning, with black on white, at the western extremity of Godsend Island.
In his excitement he got up without assistance, and was soon busy calculating the longitude of Godsend Isle.
Mothi was delighted at the prospect of our finding a fresh kill, for his means only permitted of his buying meat for his family once a month, and a sambhar, chital, or pig, freshly killed by a tiger or by a leopard, was a godsend to him.
The grim zeal of Simon Swade to trap Lamont Cranston and prove him The Shadow was a godsend to Kilby.