# goddess
## English
### Etymology

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

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gŏd'ĕs, enPR: gäd'ǐs, IPA: /ˈɡɒdɛs/, /-ɪs/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɡɑdəs/, /-ɛs/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Hyphenation: god‧dess

### Noun

goddess (plural goddesses)
* (religion) A female deity.
** 2019 January 8, Christine Proust, John Steele, Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk, Springer, →ISBN, page 248:[…] 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.
* (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.

#### Hypernyms

* (female deity): deity, divinity, god
* (certain woman): woman

#### Derived terms

* bitch goddess
* demigoddess
* domestic goddess
* goddesship
* goddesshood
* goddessless
* goddesslike
* goddessling
* goddessly
* goddess-queen
* goddessship
* goddess-ship
* goddessy
* goddex
* green goddess
* Green Goddess
* mother goddess
* personal goddess
* porcelain goddess
* sex goddess
* triple goddess
* worship the porcelain goddess

#### Translations

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 (neoi$^5$ san$^4$)
Hokkien: 女神 (zh-min-nan) (lú-sîn / lí-sîn)
Mandarin: 女神 (zh) (nǚshén)
Coptic: ⲛⲧⲱⲣⲉ (ntōre)
Cornish: duwes f
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), thiên nữ (天女)
Welsh: duwes f :
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#### See also

* heaven