God
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏd
enpr: gôd
ipa: /ɡɒd/
ipa: /ɡɔːd/
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: /ɡɑ(d)/
ipa: /ɡɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: gaud (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: Gods
head_nr: 1
form: od
form: god
raw_tags: as proper noun
in philosophy
form: gawd
form: Gawd
form: g-d
form: G-d
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós?
Proto-Germanic *gudą
Proto-West Germanic *god
Old English god
Middle English god
Middle English God
English God
Derived from Middle English God. See god.
Senses: examples: text: Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in multiple gods and goddesses.
text: Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 4:8:
text: God is loue, and hee that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 4:16:
text: ...God, the All-gracious, the All-good, the All-bountiful, the All-mighty, the All-merciful God...
ref: 1741, [Samuel Richardson], Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], 3rd edition, volume II, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 388:
text: The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.
ref: 1911, Katharine Harris Bradley as Michael Field, Accuser, page 158
text: This is a sad time for all people. We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help — and God's.
ref: 1971 [1963 November 22], Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
text: He (n.b.: a Muslim) has told me that he will not allow one person’s actions to stop him from praying to his God.
ref: Paragraph 73, R v Brenton Harrison Tarrant (Sentencing remarks) ([2020] NZHC 2192)
text: All this will culminate in a final showdown in Israel between the true Lord (Jehovah) God of Israel and the false god (Allah) of Mecca (the center of pagan idolatry in Arabia, at the Kaaba) […]
ref: 2011, Steve Urick, Practical Christian Living, →ISBN, page 214:
head_nr: 2
glosses: The first deity of various theistic religions, and the only deity in monotheism.
examples: text: God sent Jesus to earth to be the King of the Jews; that is, the one to tell them what they should do. […] I will tell you why God let Jesus die upon the cross.
ref: 1899, The Sunday School Journal, page 378:
head_nr: 2
glosses: The first deity of various theistic religions, and the only deity in monotheism.
God the Father as distinguished from Jesus Christ, God the Son.
qualifier: Trinitarian Christianity
examples: text: The ancients represented this fundamental duality mythologically as God and Goddess. When Mystery looks at itself, God looks at Goddess.
ref: 2001, Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, Jesus and the Lost Goddess, page 133:
text: 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.
ref: 2005, Nikki Bado-Fralick, Coming to the Edge of the Circle, page 45:
text: God and Goddess watched as the finite universe continued to develop into a stable platform to sustain finite life and were pleased.
ref: 2006, Ronald L. Clark, The Grace of Being, page 22:
head_nr: 2
glosses: The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1895, “The Tâo-Tĭh-King, or Thoughts on the Nature and Manifestations of God”, in G. G. Alexander, transl., Lâo-Tsze the Great Thinker […], page 55:
text: For Aristotle, God as the ultimate ground is the being that is responsible for the workings of the rational cosmos, but not for itself.
ref: 2000, Catriona Hanley, Being and God in Aristotle and Heidegger, →ISBN, page 195:
text: Now, if night, winter, hunger, and war, which describe the God’s appearance as the multiple world, are his ‘scents’ and ‘names’, the same must be true of the world’s several constituents: all created things are just transient ‘scents’, and their names misnomers, of the fiery God.
ref: 2017, Aryeh Finkelberg, Heraclitus and Thales’ Conceptual Scheme: A Historical Study, →ISBN, page 156:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: The transcendent principle, for example the ultimate cause or prime mover, often not considered as a person.
Synonyms: god
Derived terms: Abrahamic God
act of God
all the hours God sends
as God intended
as God is my witness
Book of God
dear God
every hour God sends
Friend of God
God be with the days
God be with you
God bless America
God committee
goddamn
goddamned
Goddess
God doesn't give with both hands
God-fearing
godforsaken
God hypothesis
Godlike
God loves a trier
God love someone
God molecule
God of the gaps
God particle
God preserve us
God rest her soul
God rest his soul
God rest their soul
God rest their souls
God's acre
God's algorithm
God's Blessing Green
God's bones
God's country
Godself
God's gift to men
God's gift to women
God's green earth
God Shave the Queen
God's honest truth
God's in his Heaven
God's mercy
God's number
God squad
God's word
God the Father
God the Holy Ghost
God the Holy Spirit
God the Son
God the Word
God willing
good God
in God we trust
like the wrath of God
man of God
may God damn you
Mother of God
oh my fucking God
oh my God
OMG
people of God
put the fear of God into
rub the fear of God into
thank God
thanks be to God
the Master of God and human
think one is God's own cousin
with God as my witness
word of God
Word of God