| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sod·om·y |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s d  -m |
| NOUN: | Any of various forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural or abnormal, especially anal intercourse or bestiality. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English sodomie, from Old French, from Sodome, Sodom, from Latin Sodoma, from Greek, from Hebrew sd m.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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