god
see also: God, GOD
Etymology
God
Pronunciation Proper noun
GOD
Etymology Proper noun
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see also: God, GOD
Etymology
Cognates include Russian звать, Sanskrit होत्र and Latin fūtilis (whence English futile). Doublet of futile.
Pronunciationgod (plural gods)
A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed. - Synonyms: Thesaurus:god
- The most frequently used name for the Islamic god is Allah.
- An idol.
- (figurative) A person in a very high position of authority, importance or influence; a powerful ruler or tyrant.
- (figurative, informal) A person who is exceptionally skilled in a particular activity.
- He is the god of soccer!
- (figurative, informal) An exceedingly handsome man.
- Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods.
- a. 1918, Wilfred Owen, Disabled:
- Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts.
- (Internet, RPG) The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.
see god/translations
Proper noun- (often, derogatory, also, philosophy)
god (gods, present participle godding; simple past and past participle godded)
- (transitive) To idolize.
- a. 1866, Edward Bulwer Lytton, "Death and Sisyphus".
- To men the first necessity is gods; / And if the gods were not, / " Man would invent them, tho' they godded stones.
- 2001, Conrad C. Fink, Sportswriting: The Lively Game, page 78:
- "Godded him up" ... It's the fear of discerning journalists: Does coverage of athletic stars, on field and off, approach beatification of the living?
- a. 1866, Edward Bulwer Lytton, "Death and Sisyphus".
- (transitive) To deify.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe:
- Then got he bow and shafts of gold and lead, / In which so fell and puissant he grew, / That Jove himselfe his powre began to dread, / And, taking up to heaven, him godded new.
- 1951, Eric Voegelin, Dante Germino ed., The New Science of Politics: An Introduction, published 1987, page 125:
- The superman marks the end of a road on which we find such figures as the "godded man" of English Reformation mystics
- 1956, C. S. Lewis, Fritz Eichenberg, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, page 241:
- "She is so lately godded that she is still a rather poor goddess, Stranger.["]
God
Pronunciation Proper noun
The first deity of various theistic religions, and the only deity in the Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. - Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in multiple gods and goddesses.
- 1741, [Samuel Richardson], Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], 3rd edition, volume II, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC ↗, page 388 ↗:
- ...God, the All-gracious, the All-good, the All-bountiful, the All-mighty, the All-merciful God...
- 1911, Katharine Harris Bradley as Michael Field, Accuser, page 158:
- The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.
- Paragraph 73, R v Brenton Harrison Tarrant (Sentencing remarks) ([2020] NZHC 2192)
- He (n.b.: a Muslim) has told me that he will not allow one person’s actions to stop him from praying to his God.
- (Trinitarian Christianity) God the Father as distinguished from Jesus Christ, God the Son.
- The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions.
- (philosophy) The transcendent principle, for example the ultimate cause or prime mover, often not considered as a person.
- See Thesaurus:god
god (plural gods)
- A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe.
- 1563, Barnabe Googe, Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes, sig. Cviiiv:
- 1911, Katharine Harris Bradley as Michael Field, Accuser, p. 158:
- The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.
- 1960 April 25, advertisement in Life, p. 125:
- Perhaps this... must involve a relationship with a God of truth—and of love, of mercy, of justice.
- Short for oh God: expressing annoyance or frustration.
- God, is this because of the "I don't love you anymore" T-shirt I bought? It was a joke!
GOD
Etymology Proper noun
- Typographical variant of God, particularly in English translations of the Bible.
- Synonyms: LORD
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