god

noun

1. A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed.

   “The most frequently used name for the Islamic god is Allah.”

   “When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.”

2. An idol.
3. (figuratively)An idol.

   “Leo Messi is my god!”

   “whose god is their belly”

   “There was an order in the universe, but it was no longer the order of the past. There was only one God, whose name was steam and spoke in the voice of Malthus, McCulloch, and anyone who employed machinery.”

4. (figuratively)A person in a very high position of authority, importance or influence; a powerful ruler or tyrant.

   “In 1951 Stalin was a god and the official tone towards the West was one of total antagonism.”

5. (figuratively, informal)A person who is exceptionally skilled in a particular activity.

   “He is the god of soccer!”

6. (figuratively, informal)An exceedingly handsome man.

   “Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods.”

   “Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts.”

7. (Internet)The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.

   “The gods usually have several wizards, or "immortals," to assist them in building the MUD.”

   “The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods.”

8. A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe.

   “A God there is, that guyds the Globe, and framde the fyckle Spheare.”

   “The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.”

   “Perhaps this... must involve a relationship with a God of truth—and of love, of mercy, of justice.”

   “Whoever said that there isn't a God is full of shit!”

name

1. (also, alt-of, derogatory, often)Alternative letter-case form of God.

   “And ſuch is to beare yͤ names of god with croſſes betwene ech name about them.”

   ““I say fuck it. Fuck god and fuck all the religions that praise him.””

   “For if the necessity of events is bound up with god’s knowledge, if there is no necessity in events, the divine knowledge is abolished. And whose mind is so distorted by such an impious idea that he would dare to say this of god?”

   “If I ask you if you believe in god, I just want to know if you have an imaginary omnipotent friend who you really believe lives outside of you in the real world.”

   “Perhaps what is needed is just the right attitude: one’s heart should be open to god in order to hear his messages. […] It does not matter: such claims only prove my point about the communicative shortcomings of so-called divine signs.”

2. (uncountable, usually)The first deity of various theistic religions, and the only deity in monotheism.

   “Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in multiple gods and goddesses.”

   “Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue”

   “God is loue, and hee that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in him.”

   “...God, the All-gracious, the All-good, the All-bountiful, the All-mighty, the All-merciful God...”

   “The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.”

3. (uncountable, usually)The first deity of various theistic religions, and the only deity in monotheism.

   “God sent Jesus to earth to be the King of the Jews; that is, the one to tell them what they should do. […] I will tell you why God let Jesus die upon the cross.”

4. (uncountable, usually)The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions.

   “The ancients represented this fundamental duality mythologically as God and Goddess. When Mystery looks at itself, God looks at Goddess.”

   “This reduces the successful invocation of God to a function of the presence of male genitalia. Put another way, women have the wrong equipment to invoke God. Goddess and God flow throughout all of nature, through each and every man and woman, becoming fully present in the world.”

   “God and Goddess watched as the finite universe continued to develop into a stable platform to sustain finite life and were pleased.”

5. (uncountable, usually)The transcendent principle, for example the ultimate cause or prime mover, often not considered as a person.

   “God (the great everlasting infinite First Cause from whom all things in heaven and earth proceed) [translating Chinese 道] can neither be defined nor named.”

   “For Aristotle, God as the ultimate ground is the being that is responsible for the workings of the rational cosmos, but not for itself.”

   “Now, if night, winter, hunger, and war, which describe the God’s appearance as the multiple world, are his ‘scents’ and ‘names’, the same must be true of the world’s several constituents: all created things are just transient ‘scents’, and their names misnomers, of the fiery God.”

6. Typographical variant of God, particularly in English translations of the Bible.

   “Surely the Lord God [Hebrew: אדני יהוה] does nothing without revealing his purpose to his servants the prophets.”

verb

1. (transitive)To idolize.

   “CORIOLANUS: This last old man, / Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome, / Loved me above the measure of a father; / Nay, godded me, indeed.”

   “a. 1866, Edward Bulwer Lytton, "Death and Sisyphus". To men the first necessity is gods; / And if the gods were not, / " Man would invent them, tho' they godded stones.”

   “"Godded him up" ... It's the fear of discerning journalists: Does coverage of athletic stars, on field and off, approach beatification of the living?”

2. (transitive)To deify.

   “Then got he bow and shafts of gold and lead, / In which so fell and puissant he grew, / That Jove himselfe his powre began to dread, / And, taking up to heaven, him godded new.”

   “The superman marks the end of a road on which we find such figures as the "godded man" of English Reformation mystics”

   “"She is so lately godded that she is still a rather poor goddess, Stranger.["]”

intj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of oh God: expressing annoyance or frustration.

   “God, is this because of the "I don't love you anymore" T-shirt I bought? It was a joke!”

   “Admiral Anderson: God... feels like years since I just sat down.”