Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Chinese image in a shrine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Chinese god or idol.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.
- noun a Chinese temple or house for the Chinese mode of worship.
- noun a reed covered with a paste made of the dust of odoriferous woods, or a cylinder made wholly of the paste; -- burned by the Chinese before an idol.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
Chinese householddivinity ; a Chineseidol . - noun
Luck .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It's a wise idea to think about how disaster-prone an area may be before retiring there, but no matter what we do, there's the "joss" factor.
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At the entrance there sometimes stood the village "joss," although many villages had destroyed their idols.
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This "joss" was a thick stake of wood, six or eight feet high, with the upper part roughly carved into the shape of a very ugly human face, and crudely coloured in vermilion and green.
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“You’d hardly believe it, perhaps, unless you’re familiar with savages, but these poor misguided, ignorant creatures took me straight to their kind of joss place to present me to the blessed old black stone there.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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"joss" and will do nothing for their virility, health or business.
Analysis 2010
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"You'd hardly believe it, perhaps, unless you're familiar with savages, but these poor, misguided, ignorant creatures took me straight to their kind of joss place to present me to the blessed old black stone there.
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Munching of the aforementioned butty is optimal with a background sound of Radio 3 and the mere essence of a Christmas joss stick.
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About 150 mainly student protesters carrying joss sticks and flowers gathered outside the bar in a wealthy neighbourhood of the capital and denounced its decorative use of sacred symbols and statues.
Buddhist group protests, symbolically seals Buddha Bar in Indonesia 2009
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I'd watch that. okayflint this is some awesome news. i really don't even know what to expect from a movie of this size if it's directed by joss whedon. good for him
Joss Whedon in Final Negotiations to Direct The Avengers | /Film 2010
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Munching of the aforementioned butty is optimal with a background sound of Radio 3 and the mere essence of a Christmas joss stick.
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