Goddess

Noun

 * 1)  A female deity.
 * 2)  A human female honored or adored as physically attractive or of superior charm and intelligence.

Related terms

 * god
 * goddess-ship

Adjectives for Goddess
libidinous; voluptuous; impending; fickle; glorious; loving; beauteous.

Thesaurus
Aides, Aidoneus, Amen-Ra, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Ares, Artemis, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Astraea, Athena, Atropos, Baal, Bellona, Bragi, Cailleac, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Cerberus, Ceres, Charon, Clio, Clotho, Cora, Cupid, Cynthia, Dame Fortune, Davy, Davy Jones, Decuma, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dike, Dionysos, Dionysus, Dis, Dis pater, Discordia, Donar, Dylan, Earth, Enyo, Erato, Erebus, Eris, Eros, Euterpe, Fata, Fates, Faunus, Flora, Fortuna, Frey, Freya, Frigg, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Hades, Heaven, Hecate, Hekate, Hel, Helicon, Helios, Hera, Hermes, Hestia, Hippocrene, Hymen, Hyperion, Indra, Isis, Juno, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Justice, Justitia, Kama, Kore, Lachesis, Loki, Love, Luna, Mars, Melpomene, Mercury, Minerva, Minos, Moirai, Morta, Muse, Nemesis, Neptune, Nereid, Nereus, Nona, Norns, Oceanid, Oceanus, Odin, Orcus, Osiris, Pan, Parcae, Parnassus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebe, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pierian Spring, Pierides, Pluto, Polyhymnia, Pomona, Poseidon, Priapus, Pronuba, Proserpina, Proserpine, Providence, Ra, Rhadamanthus, Satan, Savitar, Selene, Set, Shamash, Skuld, Sol, Surya, Teleia, Tellus, Terpsichore, Terra, Thalia, Themis, Thetis, Thor, Titan, Tiu, Triptolemos, Triptolemus, Triton, Tyche, Typhon, Tyr, Urdur, Varuna, Vayu, Venus, Verthandi, Vesta, Vidar, Vitharr, Weird Sisters, Weirds, Woden, Wotan, Zephyr, Zephyrus, Zeus, afflatus, artistic imagination, ball lightning, biosphere, blindfolded Justice, bolt, bolt of lightning, chain lightning, clash, clashing, commercialism, conception, conflict, contention, corn god, corn spirit, creative imagination, creative power, creative thought, dark lightning, deep, demigod, demigoddess, disaccord, disaffinity, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dread rattling thunder, enmity, esemplastic imagination, esemplastic power, faun, fertility god, field spirit, fire of genius, fireball, firebolt, flying flame, forest god, forked lightning, fresh-water nymph, friction, fulguration, fulmination, genius, geography, geosphere, globe, god, hero, heroine, idol, incompatibility, incompatibleness, industrialism, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inspiration, jangle, jar, kelpie, lares and penates, levin bolt, lightning, limniad, man fish, mercantilism, mermaid, merman, mischief, mother earth, muse, mythicization, mythification, mythopoeia, naiad, nix, nixie, noncooperation, oak-cleaving thunderbolts, ocean nymph, open conflict, panisc, panisca, paniscus, peal of thunder, phoenix, poesy, poetic genius, poetic imagination, rub, satyr, sea devil, sea god, sea nymph, sea-maid, sea-maiden, seaman, shaping imagination, sheet lightning, silenus, siren, strained relations, stroke of lightning, sylvan deity, tension, terra, terrestrial globe, the Muses, the blue planet, the goat god, this pendent world, thunder, thunderball, thunderbolt, thunderclap, thundercrack, thundering, thunderpeal, thunderstorm, thunderstroke, undine, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, vale, vale of tears, vegetation spirit, water god, water spirit, water sprite, whole wide world, world

Etymology
, from ca. 1350. The figurative meaning is early modern, first found in Spenser's Shepheardes calender (1579).

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: bohyně
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: gyðja


 * Indonesian: Dewi
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: deusa
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: diosa
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: tanrıça, ilahe
 * Vietnamese: nữ thần


 * Arabic:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: bohyně
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: Dewi
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: tanrıça


 * : 女神 (nǚshéng)
 * : dewi
 * : istennő
 * : 女神 (めがみ, megami)
 * : dieviete
 * (bokmål): gudinne /
 * : istennő
 * : 女神 (めがみ, megami)
 * : dieviete
 * (bokmål): gudinne /
 * : dieviete
 * (bokmål): gudinne /


 * (nynorsk): gudinne
 * : dea
 * : deusa
 * : ban-dia
 * Cyrillic: богиња, божица
 * Latin: boginja, božica
 * : bohyňa
 * : ilati
 * : bohyňa
 * : ilati
 * : ilati
 * : ilati