Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A female being of supernatural powers or attributes, believed in and worshiped by a people.
- n. A female being believed to be the source of life and being and worshiped as the principal deity in various religions. Used with the.
- n. An image of a female supernatural being; an idol.
- n. Something, such as fame or wealth, that is worshiped or idealized.
- n. A woman of great beauty or grace.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A female god or deity.
Wiktionary
- n. religion A female deity.
- n. figuratively A human female honored or adored as physically attractive or of superior charm and intelligence.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.
- n. A woman of superior charms or excellence.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a female deity
Etymologies
- god + -ess, from ca. 1350. The figurative meaning is early modern, first found in Spenser's Shepheardes calender (1579). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But really I would have perferred to be the goddess or the temptress or the dark goddess but whatever”
“Sheen says he picked up the term "goddess" from Cage.”
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“Aside from not rolling trippingly off the tongue, I found that many women took issue with the word goddess.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Ali Binazir: What Real Life Goddesses Have in Common
“The ice goddess is able to control men against their will.”
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“I swear to whichever goddess is presently in the mood to listen, if these weird dreams keep up, I'm going to have our water tested for LSD.”
“Aaron Carter tasted bile on Dancing With the Stars, fabulous guest judge Nigella Lawson fought the urge to hurl on Top Chef, and poor Carol Hannah dropped to her knees and worshiped the porcelain goddess on Project Runway.”
“What if the goddess is immortal but suffers the pains of mortal flesh?”
“The former “rain goddess” has become one of the most recognizable icons in comic culture, black or white.”
“An actress looking for work ends up as a stand-in goddess in a nazi Xenium plot.”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Not That Kind Of Girl - Trina Robbins
“The new series acquisitions feature some of the best characters that the manga world has to offer, including fighting maids, a temperamental rain goddess, and — in a unique twist — cute, talking bacteria.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘goddess’.
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-ess
words with the suffix -ess
goddess, giantess, enchantress, doctress, archeress, auditress, avengeress, buildress, butleress, captainess, cateress, championess and 106 more...
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...yearling, wild celery, Wain, Themis, talon, slither, sedge, sea eagle, scurf, rile, prevaricate, poplar tree and 732 more...
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
abduct, abducting, abductor, Achaea, Achaean, Achilles, advise, Aegean, Aegean Sea, Aegina, aegis, Aeneas and 713 more...
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You are so GOOD LOOKING!
Words about looking good
a dish, dishy, snazzy, styling, looker, handsome, beautiful, delicious, dessert, yummy, tantalizing, hormone hunk and 55 more...
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Food words that sound sexy
I am taking my lead from the 100 mile diet bloggers in Vancouver, whose guidelines for eating locally conclude with the observation that most things said about food are equally applicable to sex: t...
unctuous, voluptuous, sensuous, salty, lick, comforting, yummy, goddess, scrape, peeled, conch, rise and 12 more...
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diioxyde's Words
macabre, egypt, egyptology, queen, love, sex, sister, lover, web, cobweb, line, circle and 223 more...
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Descriptive
The present, the future. Goals, wishes, hopes.
capricious, sericeous, sleek, flawless, charming, skilled, long-haired, versatile, beautiful, witty, fair, thin and 145 more...
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The Iliad
Selection from Homer's, The Iliad. Written 800BCE. Samuel Butler translation.
A day will come w..., spears, bossed sh..., his eyes glared l..., a din which reach..., our cups kept bri..., the black blood f..., sweat rained from..., shady glades of t..., my arrow has not ..., many-fountained, thunderbolt, all bedrabbled in... and 102 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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Femmesque
Curious words having to do with women: positive or negative; feminine, observational, technical, weird, stupid, crass, etc. I loathe some of these words but I'm using this list as a catch-all... ev...
mittelschmerz, gynotikolobomasso..., ingenue, uxorious, hogminny, quim, suffragette, damsel, madame, parturient, testatrix, mediatrix and 188 more...
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eloise's Words
embrace, perfect, imagine, dance, water, color, echo, hollow, sorrow, beauty, impossible, violet and 438 more...
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Love
A general collection of the sort of words that make me happy when I hear or read them in everyday conversation and writing.
velleities, discombobulated, boggle, breathtaking, enchanting, siren, luscious, moment, fiasco, delirium, darling, ethereal and 215 more...
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words I like
brilliance, jujube, antichrist, existential, kibosh, royale, delicious, hobo, effervescence, mindshare, espionage, politico and 25 more...
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