god

noun

1. 1

   A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed.

   The most frequently used name for the Islamic god is Allah.

   When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.

2. 2

   An idol. A representation of a deity, especially a statue or statuette.

3. 3

   figurativeAn idol. Something or someone particularly revered, worshipped, idealized, admired and/or followed.

   Leo Messi is my god!

   whose god is their belly

   There was an order in the universe, but it was no longer the order of the past. There was only one God, whose name was steam and spoke in the voice of Malthus, McCulloch, and anyone who employed machinery.

4. 4

   figurativeA person in a very high position of authority, importance or influence; a powerful ruler or tyrant.

   In 1951 Stalin was a god and the official tone towards the West was one of total antagonism.

5. 5

   figurativeA person who is exceptionally skilled in a particular activity.

   He is the god of soccer!

6. 6

   figurativeAn exceedingly handsome man.

   Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods.

   Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts.

7. 7

   The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.

   The gods usually have several wizards, or "immortals," to assist them in building the MUD.

   The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods.

proper noun

1. 1

   Variant of GodAlternative letter-case form of God.

   And ſuch is to beare yͤ names of god with croſſes betwene ech name about them.

   “I say fuck it. Fuck god and fuck all the religions that praise him.”

   For if the necessity of events is bound up with god’s knowledge, if there is no necessity in events, the divine knowledge is abolished. And whose mind is so distorted by such an impious idea that he would dare to say this of god?

   If I ask you if you believe in god, I just want to know if you have an imaginary omnipotent friend who you really believe lives outside of you in the real world.

verb

1. 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.

   "Godded him up" ... It's the fear of discerning journalists: Does coverage of athletic stars, on field and off, approach beatification of the living?

2. 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

   "She is so lately godded that she is still a rather poor goddess, Stranger.["]

Forms

plural

gods

past tense

godded

past participle

godded

present participle

godding

third person singular

gods