Deity

  • 11deity — UK [ˈdeɪətɪ] / UK [ˈdiːətɪ] / US [ˈdɪətɪ] noun [countable] Word forms deity : singular deity plural deities a god …

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  • 12deity — deify, deity The pronunciations preferred now in the COD (2006 edition) are day rather than the traditional dee , although the latter persists in more conservative circles. The Deity (= God), is spelt with a capital initial …

    Modern English usage

  • 13deity — Synonyms and related words: Aides, Aidoneus, Amen Ra, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Ares, Artemis, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Astraea, Athena, Atropos, Baal, Bellona, Bragi, Cailleac, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Cerberus, Ceres, Charon,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 14deity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Divine nature Nouns 1. (nature of God) Deity, Divinity; Godhead, Godship; Omnipotence, Providence; anima mundi. 2. (God s names) a. God, Lord; Jehovah, Yahweh, Jah, JHVH, Tetragrammaton, Adonai, Elohim,… …

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  • 15deity — [14] Deity comes via Old French deite from late Latin deitās ‘godhood, divinity’, a derivative of Latin deus ‘god’. This traces its ancestry back to Indo European *deiwos, which has links with other words meaning ‘sky’ and ‘day’ and probably… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 16deity — [[t]de͟ɪɪtɪ, AM di͟ː [/t]] deities N COUNT: usu with supp A deity is a god or goddess. [FORMAL] …

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  • 17deity — [ deɪɪti, di:ɪ ] noun (plural deities) 1》 a god or goddess (especially in a polytheistic religion).     ↘(the Deity) the creator and supreme being. 2》 divine status, quality, or nature. Origin ME: from OFr. deite, from eccles. L. deitas, from… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 18Deity — noun formal the Deity God …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 19deity — noun everyone cracked up when Coolidge said she worshiped a deity named Grover Syn: god, goddess, divine being, supreme being, divinity, immortal; creator, demiurge; godhead …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 20deity — n 1.(cap.)God, God Almighty, the Almighty, the Godhead, Divine Being, the Deity, Providence, Holy One; God the Father, Divine Father, Our Father; Jehovah, Yahweh, Allah; the Supreme Being, Supreme Goodness, the Ail Powerful, the Omnipotent, the… …

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