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Definition of Godsend
1. Noun. 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 like an assembly line"
Generic synonyms: Happening, Natural Event, Occurrence, Occurrent
Definition of Godsend
1. n. Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.
Definition of Godsend
1. Noun. An unexpected good fortune or benefit; a windfall. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Godsend
1. an unexpected boon [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Godsend
Literary usage of Godsend
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1868)
"The republic was to America a godsend ; it came, though unsought, because society
contained the elements of no other organization. ..."
2. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"but merely a sense of intense relief at such a godsend having just now turned up
in the moment of ouf greatest need. . . . CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, JR., ..."
3. The Great American Fraud: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quacks, in Two by Samuel Hopkins Adams (1907)
"... diseases," and to perform various other useful and surprising functions, and
is, also, "the key of everlasting life, a godsend to suffering humanity. ..."
4. History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent by George Bancroft (1878)
"... godsend; it came, though unsought, because society contained the elements of
no other organization. Here, and, in that century, here only, was a people, ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"It was a godsend, and I inwardly thanked the God who had vouchsafed it—outwardly
I only thanked man, crying "Thank you, thank you, Monsieur."'—Vol. ii. p. ..."
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