GODDESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does goddess mean? 

• GODDESS (noun)
  The noun GODDESS has 1 sense:

1. a female deity

  Familiarity information: GODDESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GODDESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A female deity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("goddess" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "goddess"):

earth-goddess; earth goddess (a goddess of fertility and vegetation)

 Context examples 

The gene Klotho is named for a Greek mythological goddess of fate.

(Longevity gene linked to better brain skills, NIH, US)

No, she was a spirit, a divinity, a goddess; such sublimated beauty was not of the earth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

One of the captivating children, who seem made to be kissed and cuddled, adorned and adored like little goddesses, and produced for general approval on all festive occasions.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But after I have stood in the doorway for some time, and feasted my eyes upon the goddess of my heart, she approaches me—she, the eldest Miss Larkins!—and asks me pleasantly, if I dance?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Three of the tombs, which date back to the New Kingdom period and are between 3500 and 3000 years old, appear to have been used for feline burial as dozens of mummified moggies were discovered within, as well as wooden cat statutes and representations of the cat goddess Bast.

(Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover One-Of-A-Kind Tomb South of Cairo, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I felt as if I had been living in a palace of cards, which had tumbled down, leaving only Miss Mills and me among the ruins; I felt as if some grim enchanter had drawn a magic circle round the innocent goddess of my heart, which nothing indeed but those same strong pinions, capable of carrying so many people over so much, would enable me to enter!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)