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GOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A material effigy that is worshipped
Example:
money was his god
Synonyms:
god; graven image; idol
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("god" is a kind of...):
effigy; image; simulacrum (a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "god"):
golden calf ((Old Testament) an idol made by Aaron for the Israelites to worship; destroyed by Moses; it is now used to refer to anything worshipped undeservedly)
joss (a Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol)
Juggernaut (a crude idol of Krishna)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
Synonyms:
deity; divinity; god; immortal
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("god" is a kind of...):
spiritual being; supernatural being (an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "god"):
Japanese deity (a deity worshipped by the Japanese)
goddess (a female deity)
earth-god; earth god (a god of fertility and vegetation)
demiurge (a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe)
Graeco-Roman deity; Greco-Roman deity (a deity of classical mythology)
Greek deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)
Roman deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans)
Norse deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Norsemen)
Teutonic deity ((German mythology) a deity worshipped by the ancient Teutons)
Anglo-Saxon deity ((Anglo-Saxon mythology) a deity worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons)
Phrygian deity (deity of the ancient Phrygians of west central Asia Minor)
saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)
god of war; war god (a god worshipped as giving victory in war)
snake god; zombi; zombie (a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies)
daemon; demigod (a person who is part mortal and part god)
sea god (a deity that personifies the sea and is usually believed to live in or to control the sea)
sun god (a god that personifies the sun or is otherwise associated with the sun)
Celtic deity (a deity worshipped by the Celts)
Egyptian deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians)
Semitic deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites)
Hindu deity (a deity worshipped by the Hindus)
Persian deity (a deity worshiped by the ancient Persians)
Chinese deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Chinese)
Instance hyponyms:
Boddhisatva; Bodhisattva (Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others)
Arhant; Arhat; lohan (a Buddhist who has attained nirvana)
Morpheus (the Roman god of sleep and dreams)
Quetzalcoatl (an Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent)
Hypnos ((Greek mythology) the Greek god of sleep; the son of Nyx)
Demogorgon ((Greek mythology) a mysterious and terrifying deity of the underworld)
Holonyms ("god" is a member of...):
pantheon (all the gods of a religion)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
Synonyms:
God; Supreme Being
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
spiritual being; supernatural being (an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events)
Instance hyponyms:
Almighty; Creator; Divine; God Almighty; Godhead; Jehovah; Lord; Maker (terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God)
Jahvey; Jahweh; Jehovah; JHVH; Wahvey; Yahve; Yahveh; Yahwe; Yahweh; YHVH; YHWH (a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH)
Allah (Muslim name for the one and only God)
Derivation:
godly (emanating from God)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people
Example:
he was a god among men
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("god" is a kind of...):
higher-up; superior; superordinate (one of greater rank or station or quality)
Context examples:
But for God’s sake tell me what has become of the Lady Frances.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For God’s sake, come at once, when this reaches you, to Cliffe Royal, and tarry as little as possible upon the way.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“God save the king!” said I, waving my cap. “And there's an end to Captain Silver!”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
If humanity had been wiped out, the gods would have starved.
(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)
The pangs of transformation had not done tearing him, before Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Even a man- animal, a god, White Fang ignored, such was the terror he was in of losing his mother.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
God grant that her influence do not make him cease to be respectable!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
To have a happy youth, to be well and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as little care and sorrow to try them as God sees fit to send.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Thank God, we leave this vile place tomorrow.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
