Etymology
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From Middle English goddesse, equivalent to god + -ess, formed about 1350. The figurative meaning is first found in Spenser's Shepheardes calender (1579). Displaced Old English gyden.
Pronunciation
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goddess (plural goddesses)
- (religion) A female deity.
- (figuratively) A woman honored or adored as physically attractive or of superior charm and intelligence.
2014, Mary Castillo, Caridad Pineiro Scordato, Berta Platas, Friday Night Chicas: Sexy Stories from La Noche, page 216: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.
- (figuratively) A woman of substantial authority or influence.
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Translations
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female deity
- Afrikaans: godin
- Albanian: perëndeshë (sq) f
- Arabic: إِلَاهَة f (ʔilāha), إِلٰهَة (ʔilāha)
- Armenian: աստվածուհի (hy) (astvacuhi)
- Asturian: diosa (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: ilahə
- Belarusian: багі́ня (be) f (bahínja)
- Bengali: দেবী (bn) (debi)
- Bulgarian: боги́ня (bg) f (bogínja)
- Burmese: ဒေဝီ (my) (dewi)
- Catalan: deessa (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 女神 (neoi5 san4)
- Hokkien: 女神 (zh-min-nan) (lú-sîn / lí-sîn)
- Mandarin: 女神 (zh) (nǚshén)
- Coptic: ⲛⲧⲱⲣⲉ (ntōre)
- Crimean Tatar: mabude
- Czech: bohyně (cs) f
- Danish: gudinde (da) c
- Dutch: godin (nl) f
- Egyptian: (nṯrt)
- Esperanto: diino (eo)
- Estonian: jumalanna
- Faroese: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: jumalatar (fi)
- French: déesse (fr) f
- Galician: deusa (gl) f
- Georgian: ქალღმერთი (kalɣmerti)
- German: Göttin (de) f, weibliche Gottheit f, weiblicher Gott m
- Greek: θεά (el) f (theá)
- Ancient: θεά f (theá)
- Ionic: θεή f (theḗ)
- Hawaiian: akua wahine
- Hebrew: אֵלָה (he) f (elá)
- Hindi: देवी (hi) f (devī)
- Hungarian: istennő (hu)
- Icelandic: gyðja (is) f, dís (is) f
- Ido: deino (io)
- Indonesian: dewi (id)
- Interlingua: dea
- Irish: bandia m
- Italian: dea (it) f
- Japanese: 女神 (ja) (めがみ, megami), 女神 (ja) (じょしん, joshin)
- Kazakh: әйел құдай (äiel qūdai)
- Khmer: ព្រះម៉ែ (prĕəh mae), ទេវី (km) (teivii), ទេពី (km) (teipii)
- Korean: 여신(女神) (ko) (yeosin), 녀신(女神) (nyeosin) (North Korea)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: îlahe (ku)
- Lao: ເທວີ (thē wī), ສຸລາງ (su lāng), ສຸຣາງ (su rāng)
- Latin: dea (la) f, dīva (la) f
- Latvian: dieviete f, dieve f
- Lithuanian: deivė f
- Macedonian: бо́жица f (bóžica)
- Malagasy: andriamanibavy
- Malay: dewi
- Manipuri: ꯗꯦꯕꯤ (debi)
- Marathi: देवी f (devī)
- Mon: ဒေဝတဴကာလခဏ္ဏဳ
- Nahuatl:
- Classical: cihuateteo
- Norman: déêsse f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gudinne (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: gudinne f, gydje f
- Occitan: dieusa f
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: богꙑни f (bogyni)
- Old English: gyden f
- Old Norse: dís f
- Pali: devī f
- Pashto: الهه (ps) f (elāha)
- Persian: الٰهه (fa) (elâhe), ایزدبانو (izadbânu)
- Polish: bogini (pl) f
- Portuguese: deusa (pt) f
- Romanian: zeiță (ro) f
- Russian: боги́ня (ru) f (bogínja)
- Sanskrit: देवी (sa) f (devī), ग्ना (sa) f (gnā́)
- Scottish Gaelic: ban-dia f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бо̀гиња f, бо̀жица f
- Roman: bòginja (sh) f, bòžica (sh) f
- Slovak: bohyňa (sk) f
- Slovene: bogínja (sl) f
- Spanish: diosa (es) f
- Sumerian: 𒀭 (/diĝir, dingir; dimer, dimir/)
- Swedish: gudinna (sv) c
- Tagalog: bathaluman, diyosa
- Tajik: олиҳа (oliha), илоҳа (iloha)
- Tatar: алиһә (tt) (alihä)
- Thai: เทวี (tee-wii)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Tocharian B: ñäkteñña
- Turkish: tanrıça (tr) f, ilahe (tr) f
- Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎍𐎚 (ỉlt)
- Ukrainian: боги́ня (uk) f (bohýnja)
- Urdu: دیوی f (devī)
- Uyghur: ئىلاھە (ilahe)
- Uzbek: maʻbuda, iloha (uz)
- Vietnamese: nữ thần (vi) (女神)
- Welsh: duwes f
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adored or idealized woman
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