gods

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US/ɡɑdz/UK/ɡɒdz/

noun

The highest platform, or upper circle, in an auditorium.

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Meanings

gods1

noun
  1. pluralplural of god
interjection
  1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of oh gods.

    Gods, Jonah. You scared me.

    2009 December 4, Jay McKiernan, chapter 31, in The Twins: A Novel (The Tales of Agramon; 1), Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 450
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    “My lord, it is past the third hour, and you were to meet Master Colombo on the training ground—” “Gods, yes! I almost forgot,” Jamie exclaimed, and jumped up from the bench he’d been sitting on.

    1984 April, Gordon R[upert] Dickson, Roland Green, chapter 7, in Jamie the Red, New York, N.Y.: Ace Fantasy Books, →ISBN, page 93

    She had nothing better to do than bait him. But gods, she was so beautiful—and completely his.

    2007 April, Steven Harper [pseudonym; Steven Harper Piziks], chapter 7, in Unity (Battlestar Galactica), New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 114

gods2

noun
  1. The highest platform, or upper circle, in an auditorium.
noungods pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyThe occupants of the gallery of a theatre.
  2. historicalpluralplural onlymediaThe quadrats used by printers in throwing on the imposing stone, similar to the movement in casting dice.

gods3

verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of god

Gods4

proper noun
  1. pluralplural of God
  2. genitiveobsoletegenitive of God

    VVherein I doubt not by Gods help, but to make clear to the judgment of any man, that it is not either uncapable through ignorance, or fore-poſſeſſed with prejudice, theſe three things.

    1641 October 17 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Robert Sanderson, “[Ad Clerum.] A Sermon Preached at a Visitation Holden at Grantham, Lincoln: Octob. 8. 1641.”, in XXXIV Sermons. […], 5th edition, London: […] [A. Clark] for A. Seil, and are to be sold by G. Sawbridge, […], published 1671, →OCLC, paragraph 12, page 5
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    To redreſſe which default (the poore in all places beeing in penurie) I haue vndertaken to be their Solicitour, vnto all manner of perſons, which ought in equitie either to ſupply them, or to prouide that ſuch as make default (being well able) may bee compelled thereunto by further authoritie front the Almightie, if this gentle motion in the words precedent will not preuaile, which heere I will repeate and explane vnto them, (by Gods aſſiſtance)

    1597, Hen[ry] Arth[ington], Prouision for the Poore, Now in Penurie. Out of the Store-House of Gods Plentie: […], London: […] Thomas Creede

    Let us not leave our fellowship, and estrange our selves from Gods people[…]To be discommoned a Town, or for a Citizen to be banished a city, is a great evill: But to be an exile from Gods city, and discommoned from the communion of Saints, this is lamentable indeed.

    1647, Paul Bayne, An Entire Commentary upon the Whole Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians, page 277

Origin

gods · noun, interjection

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gods · noun, noun

So called from the idea of gods (deities) reigning from on high.

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gods · verb

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with gods

oddsquadsLodzat odds
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Sounds the same

gauds (cot–caught merger)

Anagrams

dogs
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Chicago

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