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heaven-sent

heaven-sent adjective: fortunate, appropriate, opportune or providential, as (or as if) ordained by God; godsent.

Adjective

heaven-sent

  1. Fortunate, appropriate, opportune or providential, as (or as if) ordained by God; godsent.
    • The guy was absolutely the greatest. Heaven-sent. A pretty youngman into both men & women, but not in their traditional roles!1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

heaven-sent meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

heaven-sent in Tamil

பொன்னான

heaven-sent in Malayalam

providential, auspicious, propitious
ദെെവാനുഗ്രഹം കൊണ്ടുള്ള, ഭാഗ്യകരമായ, ഏറ്റവും അനുഗ്രാഹ്യമായ, ശൂഭാവഹമായ, ശുഭശകുനമായ, ശുഭാവഹമായ

Questions about heaven-sent

What does heaven-sent mean?
Heaven-sent means fortunate, appropriate, opportune or providential, as (or as if) ordained by God; godsent.
What is heaven-sent in Tamil?
Heaven-sent in Tamil is பொன்னான. See Heaven-sent meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is heaven-sent?
Heaven-sent is an adjective.

Words near heaven-sent in the dictionary

  1. heaven only knows
  2. heaven spot
  3. heaven spots
  4. heaven tree
  5. heaven trees
  6. heaven-sent
  7. heavened
  8. Heavener
  9. Heaveners
  10. heavenes
  11. Heavenese

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heaven-sent (page history and authors); heaven-sent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heaven-sent (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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