Meanings
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1
noun
A female god worshipped in a religion.
Athena was the Greek goddess of wisdom.
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2
noun
A woman admired for her beauty, charm, or talent.
On screen she looked like a Hollywood goddess.
Thesaurus
Word family
Forms
goddesses
Derived forms
demigoddessgoddess-queengoddess-shipgoddesshipgoddesshoodgoddesslessgoddesslikegoddesslinggoddesslygoddessshipgoddessygoddex
Etymology
From Middle English goddesse, equivalent to god + -ess, formed about 1350. The figurative meaning is first found in Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes calender (1579). Displaced Old English gyden.
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