plural gods
1
God
: the supreme or ultimate reality: such as
a
: the being perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness who is worshipped (as in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism) as creator and ruler of the universe
Throughout the patristic and medieval periods, Christian theologians taught that God created the universe …—
Jame Schaefer
Jame Schaefer… the Supreme Being or God, the personal form of the Ultimate Reality, is conceived by Hindus as having various aspects.—Sunita Pant Bansal
Sunita Pant Bansal
b
Christian Science
: the incorporeal divine Principle ruling over all as eternal Spirit : infinite Mind
2
or less commonly God
: a being or object that is worshipped as having more than natural attributes and powers
specifically
: one controlling a particular aspect or part of reality
Greek gods of love and war
3
: a person or thing of supreme value
had photos of baseball's gods pinned to his bedroom wall
4
: a powerful ruler
Hollywood gods that control our movies' fates
Synonyms
Examples of god in a Sentence
Noun
Does she believe in God?
I pray to God that no one was seriously injured in the accident.
the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt
a myth about the god of war
an offering for the gods
a professor who was regarded as a kind of god
a guitar god like Jimi Hendrix
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Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
The holiday serves as a time for people to gather and eat with family, pay respects to ancestors and gods, sweep away ill fortune and negativity of the previous year, and usher in a new year full of prosperity and good luck.
—Mae Hamilton, AFAR Media, 28 Jan. 2025
Mountain ranges are graveyards of ghost areas, abandoned by skittish investors or undone by the fickleness of weather gods.
—John Branch, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
That’s because the Greeks distinguished between Olympian gods, who lived on Mt. Olympus, and chthonic gods, who lived in the underworld.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Its friezes depict a procession of gods, warriors, and mythical animals; its metopes, single panels within the larger frieze, narrate mythological battles of the Athenians against the Amazonians and the Centaurs, alluding to the Greco-Persian wars.
—Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
The holiday serves as a time for people to gather and eat with family, pay respects to ancestors and gods, sweep away ill fortune and negativity of the previous year, and usher in a new year full of prosperity and good luck.
—Mae Hamilton, AFAR Media, 28 Jan. 2025
Mountain ranges are graveyards of ghost areas, abandoned by skittish investors or undone by the fickleness of weather gods.
—John Branch, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
That’s because the Greeks distinguished between Olympian gods, who lived on Mt. Olympus, and chthonic gods, who lived in the underworld.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for god
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“God.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/god. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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