dictionary definitions for "godsend"


From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Godsend \God"send`\ (g[o^]d"s[e^]nd), n.
     Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of
     good fortune.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  godsend
      n 1: 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"
           [syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend,
           manna from heaven, windfall, bunce]


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