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Noun

God ‎(plural Gods)

1. An impersonal and universal spiritual presence or force.
2. creator of the universe (as in deism).
3. The (personification of the) laws of nature.

Translations

Proper noun

God ‎(usually uncountable, plural Gods)

1. The single deity of various monotheistic religions.

   Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in multiple gods and goddesses.

2. The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions.
   • 2001, Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, Jesus and the Lost Goddess, page 133:

     The ancients represented this fundamental duality mythologically as God and Goddess. When Mystery looks at itself, God looks at Goddess.

   • 2005, Nikki Bado-Fralick, Coming to the Edge of the Circle, page 45:

     This reduces the successful invocation of God to a function of the presence of male genitalia. Put another way, women have the wrong equipment to invoke God.

     Goddess and God flow throughout all of nature, through each and every man and woman, becoming fully present in the world.

   • 2006, Ronald L. Clark, The Grace of Being, page 22:

     God and Goddess watched as the finite universe continued to develop into a stable platform to sustain finite life and were pleased.

Usage notes

God is often referred to by masculine pronouns, not necessarily implying that the speaker believes God to be male. God is also sometimes referred to by pronouns that begin with a capital letter, as a sign of respect, in many languages written in Latin script. In English, these include He, Him, His and Himself. The use of standard, uncapitalized pronouns is at least equally frequent and is the norm among English Bible translations (including the King James Version).^[1] Many Jews follow a prohibition in their tradition against using this term and other equivalents in writing (see G-d).

When describing the Abrahamic deity, the word "God" is capitalized almost without exception, even when preceded by various qualifiers.^[2] The term is frequently, but not always, capitalized in more vague, deistic references to a single deity.

English references to God in an Islamic context may use the word "God" or the Arabic "Allah." Though the latter is simply the word for "God" in Arabic, it is often treated as a personal name in English, and is used in English only with reference to Islam.

Synonyms

• Allah, Almighty, cosmocrat, Divine Father, G-d, god, Jah, Jehovah, Lord, LORD, Most High, Yahweh, Brahman, Ahura Mazda, Ra, Waheguru, Sage, Odin, Zeus

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

God

1. An expression of frustration.

   God, is this because of the "I don't love you anymore" T-shirt I bought? It always goes back to that, doesn't it?‎

References

1. ↑ http://biblehub.com/psalms/18-30.htm
2. ↑ http://biblehub.com/psalms/18-31.htm

See also

• god
• atheism
• divine
• monotheism
• polytheism
• Tetragrammaton
• theism

Anagrams

• dog, DOG

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch God.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɔt/

Proper noun

God

1. God

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔt
• IPA^(key): /ɣɔt/

Etymology

See god.

Proper noun

God m

1. God

   God, neem me mee naar een plek hier ver vandaan. -- Kempi & Willy - Hier Ver Vandaan 2009

   Oh, mijn God - Oh my god

Derived terms

• godgeleerdheid
• godsdienst

See also

• god

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English God, see Old English god.

Proper noun

God ‎(uncountable)

1. God (the deity of Abrahamic religions)

References

• God in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• “God, n.(1)”, in MED Online, University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2015-03-23

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian god, from Proto-Germanic *gudą. More at god.

Noun

God m

1. god
2. God

Derived terms

• goddelk

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English God.

Proper noun

God

1. God (Abrahamic monotheistic deity)
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:2 (translation here):

     Tudak i karamapim bikpela wara na spirit bilong God i go i kam antap long en.

West Frisian

Etymology

See god.

Proper noun

God

1. God

English

Indra on his mount Airavata.

A statue depicting Zeus, a Greek god.

Alternative forms

• gawd
• Gawd
• God

Noun

god ‎(plural gods, feminine goddess)

1. A deity.
   1. A supernatural, typically immortal being with superior powers.
   2. A male deity.
      • 2002, Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby:

        When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.

   3. A supreme being; God.

      The most frequently used name for the Islamic god is Allah.

2. Alternative letter-case form of God.
3. An idol.
   1. A representation of a deity, especially a statue or statuette.
   2. Something or someone particularly revered, worshipped, idealized, admired and/or followed.
      • Bible, Phil. iii. 19

        whose god is their belly

4. (figuratively) A person in a high position of authority, importance or influence.
5. (figuratively) A powerful ruler or tyrant.
6. (colloquial) An exceedingly handsome man.

   Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods.

   • Wilfred Owen, Disabled (poem)

     Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts.

7. (Internet) The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.
   • 1996, Andy Eddy, Internet after hours

     The gods usually have several wizards, or "immortals," to assist them in building the MUD.

   • 2003, David Lojek, Emote to the Max (page 11)

     The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods.

Usage notes

The word god is often applied both to males and to females. The word was originally neuter in Proto-Germanic; monotheistic – notably Judeo-Christian – usage completely shifted the gender to masculine, necessitating the development of a feminine form, goddess.

Synonyms

• (supernatural being with superior powers): deity, See also Wikisaurus:god

Derived terms

Translations

Proper noun

god

1. (very rare) Alternative form of God
   • 1530, William Tyndall, An aunſwere vnto Syr Thomas Mores Dialogue in The whole workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy Martyrs, and principall teachers of this Churche of England, collected and compiled in one Tome togither, beyng before ſcattered, & now in Print here exhibited to the Church (1573), page 271/2:

     And ſuch is to beare yͤ names of god with croſſes betwene ech name about them.

   • 1900, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Happy Man" in The Wild Knight and Other Poems:

     Golgotha's ghastly trinity—

     Three persons and one god.

Verb

god ‎(third-person singular simple present gods, present participle godding, simple past and past participle godded)

1. To idolize.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, Act V Scene III:

     CORIOLANUS: This last old man, / Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome, / Loved me above the measure of a father; / Nay, godded me, indeed.

   • 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?

2. To deify.
   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe.

     Then got he bow and fhafts of gold and lead, / In which fo fell and puiflant he grew, / That Jove himfelfe 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 (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.

Translations

See also

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• dog, DOG

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish gōþær, gothær, from Old Norse góðr ‎(“good”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- ‎(“to join, to unite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡoð/, [ɡ̊oðˀ], [ɡ̊oːˀð], [ɡ̊oːˀ]
• Rhymes: -oð

Adjective

god ‎(neuter godt, e-form gode, comparative bedre, superlative (predicative) bedst, superlative (attributive) }}})

1. good

References

• “god” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch got, from Proto-Germanic *gudą, from the Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuto- ‎(“invoked (one)”). Compare English and West Frisian god, German Gott, Danish gud.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔt
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /ʝɔt/
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ɣɔt/

Noun

god m ‎(plural goden, diminutive godje n, feminine godin)

1. god

German Low German

Alternative forms

• (in other dialects) good (got)
• (in other dialects) goot

Etymology

From Middle Low German gôt, from Old Saxon gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔʊt/, IPA^(key): /ɣoʊt/

Adjective

god

1. (in some dialects) good (alternative spelling of goot)

Gothic

Romanization

gōd

1. Romanization of 𐌲𐍉𐌳

Lower Sorbian

Noun

god

1. Superseded spelling of gód.

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English god.

Noun

god (plural gods, genitive goddes)

1. god

Descendants

• English: god

Middle Low German

Adjective

god

1. Alternative spelling of gôt.

Noun

god

1. Alternative spelling of got.
2. Alternative spelling of gôt.

Navajo

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *-ɢᴜ̓t’.

Cognates:

• Apachean: Western Apache -god, Chiricahua -go’
• Others: Hupa -ɢot’, Mattole -goʔł, Galice -gʷay’, Chilcotin -gʷə́d, Slavey -gó’, Hare -gó’, Dogrib -gò, Dene Sųłiné -gór, Sekani -gʷə̀de’, Dunneza -gʷəd, Central Tanana -gᴜd, Hän -gòd, Ahtna -ɢo’d, Dena’ina -ɢət’, Eyak -ɢuʰd

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kòt]~[kɣʷòt]

Noun

-god (inalienable)

1. knee

Derived terms

• agod (someone’s knee)
• hagod (one’s knee)
• bigod (his/her/their knee)
• shigod (my knee)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse góðr, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- ‎(“to join, to unite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /guː/, [guʷː]

Adjective

god ‎(neuter singular godt, definite singular and plural gode, comparative bedre, indefinite superlative best, definite superlative beste)

1. good

Derived terms

• godartet
• godta
• ingen nyheter er gode nyheter
• så langt, så godt

References

• “god” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse góðr, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- ‎(“to join, to unite”).

Adjective

god ‎(masculine and feminine god, neuter godt, definite singular and plural gode, comparative betre, indefinite superlative best, definite superlative beste)

1. good

Derived terms

• så langt, så godt

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *gudą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuto- ‎(“invoked; poured, libated”), from an original root *ǵʰaw-, *ǵʰawH- ‎(“call, invoke”) or *ǵʰew- ‎(“pour”). Germanic cognates include Old Frisian god, Old Saxon god (Low German gad), Dutch god, Old High German got (German Gott), Old Norse goð, guð (Danish and Swedish gud), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸 ‎(guþ). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek καυχάομαι ‎(kaukháomai, “I extol, boast”), Old Irish guth ‎(“voice”), Old Church Slavonic зъвати ‎(zŭvati) (Russian звать ‎(zvatʹ, “call”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡod/

Noun

god n ‎(nominative plural godu)

1. god

Declension

Noun

god m

1. God, the Christian god

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: god
  • English: god

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-, *gʰadʰ- ‎(“to gather, align, match”). Cognate with Old Frisian gōd, Old Saxon gōd, Dutch goed, Old High German guot (German gut), Old Norse góðr (Swedish god), Gothic 𐌲𐍉𐌸𐍃 ‎(gōþs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡoːd/

Adjective

gōd (comparative betera, superlative betst)

1. good, appropriate, pleasing

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: good
  • English: good
• Scots: guid

Noun

gōd n

1. good; goodness, benefit, well-being

Declension

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.

Adjective

gōd

1. good

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: gud

• West Frisian: goed

Old Saxon

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- ‎(“to join, to unite”). Compare Old English and West Frisian gōd, Old High German and Old Dutch guot, Old Norse góðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣoːd/

Adjective

gōd (comparative betiro, superlative betst)

1. good
   • Davides thes gōdon‎

     David the Good

     (Heliand, verse 363)

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: gôd
  • Low German: goot

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣoːd/

Noun

gōd n

1. goodness, benefit
   • dōt im gōdes filu‎

     They gave to them loads of goods

     (Heliand, verse 1456)

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: gôd
  • Low German: Goot

Etymology 3

From Proto-Germanic *gudą, from the Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuto- ‎(“invoked (one)”). Compare Old English god, Old Frisian god, Old High German got, Old Norse guð.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔd/

Noun

god n

1. god
   • godes ēgan barn‎

     God's own child

     (Heliand, verse 326)

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: god

Etymology 4

From Proto-Germanic *gudą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔd/

Noun

god m

1. God, the Christian god
   • thia habdon maht godes helpa fan himila‎

     They had the power by the help of God in the heavens

     (Heliand, verse 11)

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: god

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) guaud
• (Sursilvan) uaul
• (Sutsilvan) gòld
• (Surmiran) gôt

Etymology

Of probable Germanic origins (compare German Wald, Dutch woud, English wold).

Noun

god m (plural gods)

1. (Puter, Vallader) forest

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *godъ. Cognate with Slovene god, Old Church Slavonic годъ ‎(godŭ), Russian год ‎(god).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡôːd/

Noun

gȏd m ‎(Cyrillic spelling го̑д)

1. name day
2. anniversary, holiday
3. ring (on a tree)