Goddess

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English

Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English. See God for further etymology.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gŏd'ĕs, IPA: /ˈɡɒdes/, X-SAMPA: /"gQdes/

Proper noun

Goddess

1. The single goddess of various monotheistic religions.
2. The single goddess of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions.
   1. (Wicca) The Lady, the main deity in Wicca.

Translations

single goddess of monotheism

• Catalan: Dea (ca) f, Deessa (ca) f
• Danish: Gudinde (da) f
• Dutch: Godin (nl) f
• Esperanto: Diino (eo)
• French: Déesse (fr) f
• German: Göttin (de) f, Gott (de) n
• Greek: Θεά (el) (Theá) f
• Hebrew: שכינה (he) (Sh'chinah) (Divine Presence)
• Hungarian: Istennő (hu)
• Italian: Dea (it) f
• Japanese: 女神 (ja)
• Latin: Dea (la) f

• Latvian: Dieviete (lv) f
• Macedonian: Божица (mk) (Bóžica) f
• Norman: Déêsse
• Portuguese: Deusa (pt) f
• Romanian: Dumnezeiță (ro) f
• Russian: богиня (ru) (boginja) f
• Scottish Gaelic: Ban-dia (gd) f
• Slovene: Boginja (sl)
• Spanish: diosa (es)
• Swedish: Gudinna (sv) f
• Turkish: Tanrıça (tr)

single goddess of ditheism

• Catalan: Dea (ca) f, Deessa (ca) f
• French: Déesse (fr) f
• German: die Göttin (de) f
• Italian: Dea (it) f

• Latvian: Dieviete (lv) f
• Macedonian: Божица (mk) (Bóžica) f
• Romanian: Dumnezeiță (ro) f
• Scottish Gaelic: Ban-dia (gd) f

Derived terms

• oh my Goddess

See also

• God
• monotheism
• polytheism