goddess
nounUK /ˈɡɒdɛs/ · US /ˈɡɑdəs/
Etymology From Middle English goddesse, equivalent to god + -ess, formed about 1350. The figurative meaning is first found in Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes calender (1579). Displaced Old English gyden.
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Lifestyle, Religion A female deity.
- […] 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.2019 January 8, Christine Proust, John Steele, Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk, Springer, →ISBN, page 248:
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Figuratively An incredibly beautiful, gorgeous, sexy, attractive woman honored and adored for her beauty or of superior charm and intelligence.
- 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.2014, Mary Castillo, Caridad Pineiro Scordato, Berta Platas, Friday Night Chicas: Sexy Stories from La Noche, page 216:
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Figuratively A woman of substantial authority or influence.
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bitch goddess, demigoddess, domestic goddess, goddesship, goddesshood, goddessless, goddesslike, goddessling, goddessly, goddess-queen, goddess-ship, goddessship, goddessy, goddex, Green Goddess, green goddess, hearth goddess, moon goddess, mother goddess, personal goddess, porcelain goddess, regal sea goddess, sea goddess, sex goddess, solar goddess, sun goddess, triple goddess, worship the porcelain goddess- Related terms
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