0 something good that happens unexpectedly, especially at a time when it is needed: --
The grant was a real godsend, especially considering the theatre was going to be shut down next month.
1 something good that happens unexpectedly and at a time when it is especially needed: --
This remedy will be a godsend to the tabloids.
It is the greatest godsend to the advertising industry.
Men who are working in deep hot mines chew tobacco and it is a godsend to them.
In view of the shortage of hay and cereals, the surplus has been a godsend.
This has been a godsend to them for meeting one part of an inevitable expenditure.
This kind of project is a godsend to an area like mine.
Every year it would have been a godsend to those who wanted to sell.
There are also such people as poachers, to whom the right to go on the land would be a godsend.
