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Word entry · 7 letters

godsend

Best crossword clue

"Welcome stroke of luck"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡɒdsɛnd/Part of speech nounSorted ddegnosStarts with GEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)

Word origin

A variant of God’s send, from God + -’s + send (“(obsolete) act of sending”), in the sense of someone or something sent by God.

Used in a sentence

  • "You do, indeed, seem to take it to heart!" exclaimed the actress, an expression of jealous anger crossing her features; "why, it is quite a God-send for you! many a heart is caught in the rebound.[…]"
  • [O]nce again, as in 1803, we were on the brink of being sacrificed to the very lunacies of retrenchment. By a mere god-send, more troops happened to arrive from the Indian continent.
  • Its seldom sic [such] rich Godsends come on our coast—no since the Jenny and James came ashore in King Charlie's time.

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