Noun: gospel
| Singular | gospel |
| Plural | gospels |
Sample Sentences
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Spreading the gospel of dental hygiene in Vermont [1917, Oral Hygiene, volume 7, section title:]
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took her words for gospel
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If any one thinks this expression hyperbolical, I shall only ask him to read Edipus, instead of taking the traditional witticisms about Lee for gospel. [1881, George Saintsbury, Dryden:]
Nouns inflected like gospel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English gospel, gospell, godspel, godspell, goddspell, from Old English godspell (“gospel”), corresponding to God + spell (“talk, tale, story”), literally “the message of God”, believed to be an alteration of earlier *gōdspell (literally “good news”), used to translate ecclesiastical Latin bona annūntiātiō, itself a translation of Ecclesiastical Latin ēvangelium / Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “evangel”, literally “good news”) (English evangel). Compare Old Saxon gōdspel and godspell (“gospel”), Old High German and Middle High German gotspel (“gospel”), Icelandic guðspjall (“gospel”), and the modern calque Malayalam സുവിശേഷം (suviśēṣaṁ). See: Middle English Nouns '
gospel', Old English Nouns '
godspell', Ancient Greek Nouns '
εὐαγγέλιον', English Nouns '
evangel', Icelandic Nouns '
guðspjall'.
Verbs referencing "gospel"
Finnish Nouns
gospel, French Nouns
gospel, Italian Nouns
gospel, Swedish Nouns
gospel, Spanish Nouns
buena nueva, Spanish Nouns
buenas noticias, Catalan Nouns
gòspel.