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Noun manna from heaven has 2 senses
- miraculous food, manna, manna from heaven - (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus
--1 is a kind of food, nutrient
- boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce - 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 lik an assembly line"
--2 is a kind of happening, occurrence, natural event
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