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Vinony

god

noun

  1. male deity, in contrast to female deities
  2. principal object of faith in monotheistic religions; a divine entity that supervises all existence
  3. deity
L12289 on Wikidata ↗

proverb

  1. pronoun
L1505935 on Wikidata ↗

proper noun

  1. principal object of faith in monotheistic religions, a divine entity that supervises all existence
L252310 on Wikidata ↗

interjection

  1. (expression of strong feeling)
L334032 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɡɒd/ / /ɡɔːd/ / /ɡɑ(d)/ / /ɡɑd/

intj

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. From a proprialization of the common noun, god.

  1. 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.”

name

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. From a proprialization of the common noun, god.

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

    “Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in gods and goddesses.”

    “Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue”

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

    “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.”

  3. 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.”

    “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.”

  4. 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.”

noun

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. From a proprialization of the common noun, god.

  1. 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.”

verb

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 English god 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. 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.”

  2. 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”