goddess
Appearance
See also: Goddess
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English goddesse, equivalent to god + -ess, formed about 1350. The figurative meaning is first found in Spenser's Shepheardes calender (1579). Displaced Old English gyden.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gŏd'ĕs, enPR: gäd'ǐs, IPA(key): /ˈɡɒdɛs/, /-ɪs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑdəs/, /-ɛs/
Audio (General American): (file) - Hyphenation: god‧dess
Noun
[edit]goddess (plural goddesses)
- (religion) A female deity.
- 2019 January 8, Christine Proust, John Steele, Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk, Springer, →ISBN, page 248:
- […] since the goddess Antu did not hold a prominent status at Uruk before the fifth century. The primary purpose of MLC 1890 was evidently to present Antu as universal goddess and all-encompassing cosmic location.
- (figuratively) A woman honored or adored as physically attractive or of superior charm and intelligence.
- 2014, Mary Castillo, Caridad Pineiro Scordato, Berta Platas, Friday Night Chicas: Sexy Stories from La Noche, page 216:
- The girls who had tormented me in high school had fallen, hard, from their pedestals. The cheerleader goddesses were Wal-Mart moms, wearing enough eyeliner and dark shadow to supply a Goth nightclub for a month.
- (figuratively) A woman of substantial authority or influence.
Hypernyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]female deity
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adored or idealized woman
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See also
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- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms suffixed with -ess (female)
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Religion
- English terms with quotations
- en:Gods
- en:Female