Goddess Meaning
/ˈɡɒdɛs/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA female deity.
nounAn incredibly beautiful, gorgeous, sexy, attractive woman honored and adored for her beauty or of superior charm and intelligence.
Sentence Examples
The Romans worshiped their goddess, Juno.
I am the last remaining worshipper of the goddess Demeter.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ancient temple was built to honor the moon ____, a female deity.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In Greek mythology, Athena is the ____ of wisdom and strategic warfare, often depicted with an owl.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[…] 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:
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ancient temple was built to honor the moon ____, a female deity.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In Greek mythology, Athena is the ____ of wisdom and strategic warfare, often depicted with an owl.