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god

noun
/ɡɒd/UK/ɡɑd/US/ɡɔd//ɡɒːd/CA/ɡɑ(d)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą; see there for further origin. Cognates Cognate with Scots God (“God”), Yola God, Gud (“God”), gud (“god”), Saterland Frisian God (“God”), West Frisian God (“God”), god (“deity, god”), Alemannic German, Cimbrian, German, Luxembourgish and Mòcheno Gott (“God”), Central Franconian Jott (“God”), Dutch god (“deity, god”), Limburgish Gód (“God”), gód (“god”), Vilamovian Göt (“God”), Yiddish גאָט (got, “god; God”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish gud (“god; God”), Faroese Gud (“God”), Icelandic goð (“idol, pagan god”), guð, Guð (“God”), Norwegian Nynorsk Gu, Gud (“God”), gu, gud (“god”), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ, “deity, god; God”). Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”).

  1. inherited from *gudą✻
  2. inherited from *god✻
  3. inherited from god
  4. inherited from god

Definitions

  1. A deity or supreme being

    A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed.

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

  2. An idol.

  3. A person in a very high position of authority, importance or influence

    A person in a very high position of authority, importance or influence; a powerful ruler or tyrant.

    • In 1951 Stalin was a god and the official tone towards the West was one of total antagonism.
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    1. A person who is exceptionally skilled in a particular activity.

      • He is the god of soccer!

    2. An exceedingly handsome man.

      • Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods.
      • Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts.

    3. The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.

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

    4. Alternative letter-case form of God.

      • And ſuch is to beare yͤ names of god with croſſes betwene ech name about them.
      • “I say fuck it. Fuck god and fuck all the religions that praise him.”
      • For if the necessity of events is bound up with god’s knowledge, if there is no necessity in events, the divine knowledge is abolished. And whose mind is so distorted by such an impious idea that he would dare to say this of god?

    5. To idolize.

      • 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.
      • "Godded him up" ... It's the fear of discerning journalists: Does coverage of athletic stars, on field and off, approach beatification of the living?

    6. To deify.

      • Then got he bow and shafts of gold and lead, / In which so fell and puissant he grew, / That Jove himselfe his powre began to dread, / And, taking up to heaven, him godded new.
      • The superman marks the end of a road on which we find such figures as the "godded man" of English Reformation mystics
      • "She is so lately godded that she is still a rather poor goddess, Stranger.["]

    7. The first deity of various theistic religions, and the only deity in monotheism.

      • Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in multiple gods and goddesses.
      • Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue
      • God is loue, and hee that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

    8. The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions.

      • The ancients represented this fundamental duality mythologically as God and Goddess. When Mystery looks at itself, God looks at Goddess.
      • God and Goddess watched as the finite universe continued to develop into a stable platform to sustain finite life and were pleased.

    9. The transcendent principle, for example the ultimate cause or prime mover, often not…

      The transcendent principle, for example the ultimate cause or prime mover, often not considered as a person.

      • God (the great everlasting infinite First Cause from whom all things in heaven and earth proceed) [translating Chinese 道] can neither be defined nor named.
      • For Aristotle, God as the ultimate ground is the being that is responsible for the workings of the rational cosmos, but not for itself.

    10. A being such as a monotheistic God

      A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe.

      • A God there is, that guyds the Globe, and framde the fyckle Spheare.
      • The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.
      • Perhaps this... must involve a relationship with a God of truth—and of love, of mercy, of justice.

    11. Ellipsis of oh God

      Ellipsis of oh God: expressing annoyance or frustration.

      • God, is this because of the "I don't love you anymore" T-shirt I bought? It was a joke!
      • Admiral Anderson: God... feels like years since I just sat down.

    12. Typographical variant of God, particularly in English translations of the Bible.

      • Surely the Lord God [Hebrew: אדני יהוה] does nothing without revealing his purpose to his servants the prophets.

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Derived

Abrahamic God, antigod, begod, bell curve god, belly-god, bow down before the porcelain god, bread god, by gods, by the gods, culture god, degod, demigod, demi-god, door god, ex-god, exgod, food for the gods, for the gods, gallows god, G-d, giddy, gift from the gods, God, godaunt, god-awful, god awful, god-bairn gift, God bless you, godbrother, god-child, godchild, goddam, god dammit, god damn, goddamn, goddaughter, godded, goddess, godding, goddish · +139 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at god. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01god02tyrant03extralegally04law05legislative06government07political08motivated09enthusiastic10enthusiasm

A definitional loop anchored at god. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at god

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA