EARTH-GOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does earth-god mean? 

• EARTH-GOD (noun)
  The noun EARTH-GOD has 1 sense:

1. a god of fertility and vegetation

  Familiarity information: EARTH-GOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EARTH-GOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A god of fertility and vegetation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

earth-god; earth god

Hypernyms ("earth-god" is a kind of...):

deity; divinity; god; immortal (any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force)

 Context examples 

And then the wheel would reappear, and Wolf Larsen’s broad shoulders, his hands gripping the spokes and holding the schooner to the course of his will, himself an earth-god, dominating the storm, flinging its descending waters from him and riding it to his own ends.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)