goddess

See also: 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).

Pronunciation

• enPR: gŏd'ĕs, IPA^(key): /ˈɡɒd.ɛs/
• enPR: gäd'ǐs, IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑd.ɪs/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: god‧dess

Noun

goddess (plural goddesses)

1. (religion) A female deity.
2. (figuratively) A woman honored or adored as physically attractive or of superior charm and intelligence.
3. (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
• Green Goddess
• green goddess
• mother goddess
• porcelain goddess
• sex goddess
• triple goddess

 

Translations

female deity

• Afrikaans: godin
• Albanian: perëndeshë (sq) f
• Arabic: إِلَاهَة f (ʔilāha), إِلٰهَة (ʔilāha)
• Armenian: աստվածուհի (hy) (astvacuhi)
• Asturian: diosa f
• Azerbaijani: ilahə
• Belarusian: багі́ня f (bahínja)
• Bulgarian: боги́ня (bg) f (bogínja)
• Catalan: deessa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女神 (zh) (nǚshén)

• Crimean Tatar: mabude
• Czech: bohyně (cs) f
• Danish: gudinde (da) c
• Dutch: godin (nl)
• Esperanto: diino (eo)
• Estonian: jumalanna
• 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
• Hindi: देवी (hi) (devī)
• Hungarian: istennő (hu)
• Icelandic: gyðja (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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kazakh: әйел құдай (äiel qūdai)
• Khmer: ព្រះម៉ែ (preah maeh), ទេវី (km) (de vi)
• Korean: 여신 (ko) (yeosin) (女神 (ko))
• Latin: dea (la) f, dīva (la) f
• Latvian: dieviete f, dieve f
• Lithuanian: deivė f
• Macedonian: бо́жица f (bóžica)
• Malagasy: andriamanibavy
• Malay: dewi
• Norman: déêsse f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gudinne (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: gudinne f

• Occitan: dieusa f
• Persian: الهه (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)
• Scottish Gaelic: ban-dia f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: богиња f, божица f

  Latin: boginja (sh) f, božica (sh) f

• Slovak: bohyňa (sk) f
• Slovene: boginja (sl) f
• Spanish: diosa (es) f
• Sumerian: 𒀭 (/⁠diĝir, dingir; dimer, dimir⁠/)
• Swedish: gudinna (sv) c
• Tagalog: bathaluman, diyosa
• Turkish: tanrıça (tr) f, ilahe (tr) f
• Ukrainian: боги́ня (uk) f (bohýnja)
• Vietnamese: nữ thần (女神)
• Welsh: duwes f

adored or idealized woman

• Arabic: مَعْبُودَة f (maʕbūda)
• Catalan: deessa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女神 (zh) (nǚshén)

• Czech: bohyně (cs) f
• Dutch: schoonheid (nl)
• Finnish: jumalatar (fi)
• French: déesse (fr) f
• Galician: deusa (gl) f
• Greek: θεά (el) f (theá)
• Hungarian: istennő (hu)
• Indonesian: Dewi (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: diva (it) f, dea (it) f
• Khmer: ទេពធីតា (dep thi dar)
• Latvian: dieviete f, dieve f
• Portuguese: deusa (pt) f
• Russian: боги́ня (ru) f (bogínja)
• Scottish Gaelic: ban-dia f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: богиња f

  Latin: boginja (sh) f

• Swedish: gudinna (sv) c
• Turkish: tanrıça (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} istennő (hu) f
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} dewi (id)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} dea (it) f
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} dea (la) f
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• Novial:
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} zeiță (ro) f
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} bohyňa (sk) f
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} boginja (sl) f

See also

• heaven