the gods

plural noun

British

: the highest and cheapest seats in a theater

The people in the gods can be the hardest to please.

Examples of the gods in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Apology is Plato’s version of the speech of self-defense Socrates gives when he is tried by the city of Athens for corrupting the youth and not believing in the gods. — Agnes Callard, The New York Review of Books, 18 Aug. 2026

Ancient Greeks imagined Olympus as the home of their 12 principal gods, including Zeus (god of the sky and thunder and king of the gods), Hera, Athena, Apollo and more. — Brittany Anas, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026

It’s known that the Incas practiced a human sacrifice ritual known as Capachoca, in which children were offered to the mountains and believed to become divine themselves, serving as intermediaries with the gods. — ArsTechnica, 3 Aug. 2026

However, seemingly only those with the gods on their side got lucky. — Alex Ritman, Variety, 31 July 2026

Rhymes for the gods

• applauds
• facades
• tripods
• amphipods
• arthropods
• copepods
• gastropods
• isopods
• pleopods
• tetrapods
• brachiopods
• cephalopods