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Definition of goddess
1 : a female god
2 : a woman whose great charm or beauty arouses adoration
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Examples of goddess in a Sentence
a goddess of ancient Greece
The actress, who is already a goddess in her own country, is finally getting recognition here.
Recent Examples of goddess from the Web
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The award is named for the ancient Sumerian goddess of beer.
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The Hindu goddess Kali faces off with Hydra, the mythical Greek serpent.
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Best known for her work as the skeptical FBI agent Dana Scully on The X-Files, Anderson gets a plum role as the new goddess Media, a character viewers only ever encounter in various disguises.
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The name synestia—from syn meaning together and Hestia the Greek goddess of architecture and structures, loosely together-structure—was chosen to stress the fact that synestias are single bodies, not a separate planet and disk.
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Ultimately, despite her awesome powers, this goddess is reduced to participating in a love triangle with mere mortals.
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So many people have been waiting to see what would happen when Wonder Woman finally came out — their hopes pinned on the goddess born Diana of Themiscyra.
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Erda, the earth goddess, who emerges near the end with a dark warning, is sung by Kelley O’Connor with affecting vulnerability rather than implacable authority.
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The lasso was, after all, imbued with its mystical properties by the goddesses both of wisdom and of love.
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First Known Use of goddess
14th century
GODDESS Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of goddess for English Language Learners
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: a female god (sense 2)
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: a woman who is greatly loved or admired
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