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Pisgah

Pisgah noun: a glimpse of a distant sight; an overview of a situation; a position that affords a view.

Noun

Pisgah (plural Pisgahs)

  1. (attributive, figuratively, often) A glimpse of a distant sight; an overview of a situation; a position that affords a view.
    • Although the development of this work, complex and compelling in its own right, lies beyond the scope of the present study, a “Pisgah view” of Billy Budd[…] discloses its presentation, among many other things, of a sharply drawn retrospective allegory of Melville’s rhetorical career.1992, Bryan Collier Short, Cast by Means of Figures: Herman Melville's Rhetorical Development, page 153

Proper noun

Pisgah

  1. The name of a mountain in the Bible. Usually refers to biblical Mount Pisgah or Mount Nebo.
    • —With swimming glance,
      Like him who erst from Pisgah's cliff descried
      The unenter'd land of promise,—he survey'd
      That emerald shore where slept in hallow'd graves
      His ancestors, where rose in beauteous strength
      The city of his joy,—1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On reading the Life of Quincy, by his Son, page 135
    • On Pisgah, Moses surveyed the whole land of Canaan, and although he was advantaged by the height of the place and the clearness of his eyes,[…] yet much of miracle must needs be admitted in so plain and far discovery.1869 [1650], Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, page 70
  2. Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina, United States.
  3. A town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Gilmer County, Georgia.
  5. A city in Harrison County, Iowa.
  6. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Illinois.
  7. An unincorporated community in Woodford County, Kentucky.
  8. An unincorporated community in Charles County, Maryland.
  9. An unincorporated community in Rankin County, Mississippi.
  10. An unincorporated community in Cooper County, Missouri.
  11. An unincorporated community in Randolph County, North Carolina.
  12. An unincorporated community in Butler County, Ohio.
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  1. A ghost town in Navarro County, Texas.
  2. An unincorporated community in Preston County, West Virginia.
  3. Willoughby State Forest in Vermont, United States.
  4. Former name of Killington Peak, Vermont, United States.

Forms of Pisgah

pluralPisgahs

Origin of Pisgah

From Biblical Hebrew פסגּה (Piṣgāh), a name for the peak of Mount Nebo, meaning literally “top of a mountain; summit”.

Questions about Pisgah

What does Pisgah mean?
Pisgah means a glimpse of a distant sight; an overview of a situation; a position that affords a view.
What part of speech is Pisgah?
Pisgah can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of Pisgah?
The plural of Pisgah is Pisgahs.

Words near Pisgah in the dictionary

  1. piscose
  2. pisculent
  3. piscy
  4. piseog
  5. piseogs
  6. Pisgah
  7. Pisgahs
  8. pish
  9. pish and posh
  10. pish and tosh
  11. pish pash

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