goddess
NounUS[god-uhs]/ˈɡɑdəs/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)goddesses
- a female deityType of deity, divinityKinds earth-goddess, earth goddess
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Translations
Noun female deity
- Spanish
- diosa
- French
- déesse
- German
- Göttin
- Italian
- dea
- Turkish
- tanrıça
- Arabic
- إِلَاهَة ʔilāha
- Chinese
- 女神 nǚshén
- Japanese
- 女神 megami
- Dutch
- godin
- Polish
- bogini
24 more languages
- Swedish
- gudinna
- Greek
- θεά theá
- Korean
- 여신 yeosin
- Indonesian
- dewi
- Vietnamese
- nữ thần
- Hungarian
- istennő
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 女神 nǚshén
- Catalan
- deessa
- Czech
- bohyně
- Esperanto
- diino
- Estonian
- jumalanna
- Finnish
- jumalatar
- Georgian
- ქალღმერთი kalɣmerti
- Hebrew
- אֵלָה elá
- Icelandic
- gyðja
- Latvian
- dieviete
- Lithuanian
- deivė
- Norwegian
- gudinne
- Romanian
- zeiță
- Scottish Gaelic
- ban-dia
- Serbo-Croatian
- boginja
- Slovak
- bohyňa
- Slovenian
- boginja
- Welsh
- duwies
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
God′dess noun
1. A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.
When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty.— Joseph Addison
2. A woman of superior charms or excellence.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54