Etymology

goddess

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Today it means: A female deity. Full definition →

Middle English goddesse
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goddess · noun1

  1. Middle English · inherited fromgoddesse
  2. English todaygoddess

From Middle English goddesse, equivalent to god + -ess, formed about 1350. The figurative meaning is first found in Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes calender (1579). Displaced Old English gyden.

Goddess · proper noun2

From Middle English, from Old English. See God for further etymology.

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