| 单词 | god's own country |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGod's own country God's own country n. a country or region regarded as especially favoured by God; spec. (a) New Zealand (cf. Godzone n.); (b) the United States, or some particular part of the United States. Compare God's country n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States states1776 United States1776 Yankee-land1803 God's own country1807 U.S.1834 Yankland1834 yankeedoodledom1845 Yankeedom1851 the land of the free1884 land of opportunity1948 U.S. of A.1973 the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun] > place of supreme happiness heaveneOE Edena1225 paradise?a1300 Garden of Eden1535 eutopia1553 happy land1562 Arcady1590 Hesperidesa1592 Elysiuma1616 God's own country1807 lotusland1856 Adamless Eden1876 summerland1895 Shangri-La1941 1807God's own country [see Compounds 2b]. 1892 in R. Bailey & H. Roth Shanties (1967) 82 Give me, give me God's own country (from a spieler's point of view), Where the scripper and the sharper conjugate the verb ‘to do’. 1893 T. Bracken Lays & Lyrics 5 I am doing very well here [i.e. in Australia] but I would much sooner live on a far smaller salary in ‘God's own Country’. 1914 G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. 43 They always come home..talkin about..God's Own Country, and the Big Western Heart. 1926 J. Devanny Lenore Divine ii. 20 Richard John Seddon..the popularly acclaimed uncrowned king of the land he himself had named ‘God's Own Country’. 1978 B. E. G. Mason Awatea (rev. ed.) App. 110 E te iwi pakeha! You God's-own-country scum! 2012 Guardian 7 Aug. (Features section) 3 With its golden beaches, majestic moors and spectacular architecture, it [sc. Yorkshire] fully deserves its billing as ‘God's own country’. < as lemmas |
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