god

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.

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

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

Leo Messi is my god!

whose god is their belly

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 3:19:

(figurative) Something or someone particularly revered, worshipped, idealized, admired and/or followed.

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

1959, Percy E. Corbett, Law in Diplomacy, page 105:

(figurative) A person in a very high position of authority, importance or influence; a powerful ruler or tyrant.

He is the god of soccer!

(figurative, informal) A person who is exceptionally skilled in a particular activity.

Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods.

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

(figurative, informal) An exceedingly handsome man.

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.

2003, David Lojek, Emote to the Max, page 11:

(Internet, roleplaying games) The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.

gods (plural)
gawd (alternative humorous pronunciation-spelling)
Gawd (alternative humorous pronunciation-spelling)
g-d (alternative)
G-d (alternative)
God (alternative)

time spent laughing is time spent with the gods

Belizean Creole: gaad

Sranan Tongo: gado

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. Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”).


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1530, William Tyndall, “An aunſwere vnto Syr Thomas Mores Dialogue”, in The whole workes of W. Tyndall […], published 1573, page 271:

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

2005, Diane L. Gabriel, Angel of My Heart, →ISBN, page 46:

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?

2010 [6th century], Boethius, translated by Andrew Smith, On Aristotle, On Interpretation 1–3, page 136:

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.

2012, Penn Jillette, God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales, →ISBN, page 77:

Perhaps what is needed is just the right attitude: one’s heart should be open to god in order to hear his messages. […] It does not matter: such claims only prove my point about the communicative shortcomings of so-called divine signs.

2016, Andrew Sneddon, A is for Atheist: An A to Z of the Godfree Life, →ISBN:

This is the formulation of the moral end as ‘assimilation to god’, which would become standard in later Platonism.

2017, Myrto Hatzimichali, “Stoicism and Platonism in ‘Arius Didymus’”, in Troels Engberg-Pedersen, editor, From Stoicism to Platonism: The Development of Philosophy, 100 BCE–100 CE, →ISBN, page 91:

(often derogatory, also philosophy) Alternative letter-case form of God

gawd (alternative humorous pronunciation-spelling)
Gawd (alternative humorous pronunciation-spelling)
g-d (alternative)
G-d (alternative)
God (alternative)


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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.

1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, act V, scene III:

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?

2001, Conrad C. Fink, Sportswriting: The Lively Game, page 78:

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.

1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe:

The superman marks the end of a road on which we find such figures as the "godded man" of English Reformation mystics

1951, Eric Voegelin, Dante Germino ed., The New Science of Politics: An Introduction, published 1987, page 125:

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

1956, C. S. Lewis, Fritz Eichenberg, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, page 241:

en-verb

god (third-person singular simple present gods, present participle godding, simple past and past participle godded)

gods (present singular third-person)
godding (participle present)
godded (participle past)
godded (past)
gawd (alternative humorous pronunciation-spelling)
Gawd (alternative humorous pronunciation-spelling)
g-d (alternative)
G-d (alternative)
God (alternative)