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

And cacao, originally used in ceremonies honoring the gods, became popular after it was sweetened when the Spanish conquered Mexico in the early 1500s. —Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Apr. 2026

And so she was granted only the time for a breath, an ethereal stroke of my cheek, a prayer to the gods of the living, before passing away and passing along an obsession. —Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026

If stars were like myths, then the first generation of stars to have existed in the cosmos would be like the gods of ancient Greece — massive, mysterious and profoundly influential on what came after them. —Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Apr. 2026

According to Greek and Roman mythology, Orion was a nocturnal hermit hunter who was the son of Zeus, the king of the gods. —Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for the gods

• applauds
• facades
• tripods
• amphipods
• arthropods
• carronades
• copepods
• demigods
• gastropods
• isopods
• pleopods
• tetrapods