Goshen

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Etymology

From Hebrew גשן.

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  • Hyphenation: Go‧shen
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Proper noun

Goshen

  1. (biblical) The Land of Goshen.
  2. A rural community of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  3. A number of places in the United States:
    1. A small town in Pike County, Alabama.
    2. A small city in Washington County, Arkansas.
    3. A census-designated place in Tulare County, California.
    4. A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
    5. A city, the county seat of Elkhart County, Indiana.
    6. A small city in Oldham County, Kentucky.
    7. A town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
    8. An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Missouri.
    9. A town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
    10. An unincorporated community in Cape May County, New Jersey.
    11. A town and village in New York; the village is the county seat of Orange County.
    12. A census-designated place in Clermont County, Ohio.
    13. An unincorporated community in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
    14. An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
    15. A ghost town in Henderson County, Texas.
    16. An unincorporated community in Parker County, Texas.
    17. An unincorporated community in Walker County, Texas.
    18. A town in Utah County, Utah.
    19. A small town in Addison County, Vermont.
    20. A small town in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
    21. A ghost town and former logging and farming community in Whatcom County, Washington.
    22. An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.

Derived terms

Noun

Goshen (plural Goshens)

  1. A land of light and plenty.
    • 1820, Walter Scott, The Monastery:
      The possessions of these Abbies were each a sort of Goshen, enjoying the calm light of peace and immunity.
    • 1962, WH Auden, Elizabeth Mayer, translating JW Goethe, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 32:
      Having taken this journey in order to escape the inclemencies I had suffered on the fifty-first parallel, I had hoped, I must confess, to enter a true Goshen on the forty-eighth.
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