interjection
Ichabod
IH-kuh-bod
interjection
1
Used to express sorrow that something has lost its former glory or standards.
"Ichabod! The old theater, once grand, now sits boarded up."
How to Use Ichabod
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn old, literary way of saying "how the mighty have fallen."
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You are more likely to meet this as the name "Ichabod Crane" from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow than as the interjection.
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Etymology
From the Hebrew name meaning "no glory," given in the Bible to a child born just as Israel's ark was captured — a name forever tied to a sudden fall from greatness.