這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字,意思沒有關係, 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 the Supreme Being (God) · innate; given by nature (god-given)
God · god
god
nYou can hold the core of god as a supreme being with power over everything — the one that, in certain religions, made the world and rules over it. From this single huge figure, the word spreads two ways: outward to lesser gods and to people or things treated as if they had that kind of power, and into everyday speech where calling on God turns into pure emotion — surprise, anger, pleading, relief.
A second word, same spelling
God
a, interjBehind all these uses sits the idea of God — the supreme being who knows everything and hands out gifts. From that one figure English grows two everyday moves: calling a natural talent God-given, and swearing by God to mean it.
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原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
GODname
- 1
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.
Godname/ɡɒd/
- 1
The first deity of various theistic religions, and the only deity in monotheism.
- Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in gods and goddesses.
- Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue
- 2
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.
- 3
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.
- 4
human-sciencesphilosophysciencesThe 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.
Godnoun/ɡɒd/
- 1
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.
godnoun/ɡɒd/
- 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
An idol.
- Leo Messi is my god!
- whose god is their belly
- 4
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
informalA person who is exceptionally skilled in a particular activity.
- He is the god of soccer!
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informalAn exceedingly handsome man.
- Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods.
- Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts.
- 7
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.
godverb/ɡɒd/
- 1
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.
- 2
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
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- oh God
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。