God vs Boy - What's the difference?
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A deity.
# A supernatural, typically immortal being with superior powers.
# A male deity.
#* 2002 , Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby :
# A supreme being; God.
An idol.
# A representation of a deity, especially a statue or statuette.
# Something or someone particularly revered, worshipped, idealized, admired and/or followed.
#* Bible, Phil. iii. 19
(metaphor) A person in a high position of authority; a powerful ruler or tyrant.
An exceedingly handsome man.
* Wilfred Owen, Disabled (poem)
(Internet) The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.
* 1996 , Andy Eddy, Internet after hours
* 2003 , David Lojek, Emote to the Max (page 11)
* 1530 , , An aun?were vnto Syr Thomas Mores Dialogue'' in ''The whole workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy Martyrs, and principall teachers of this Churche of England, collected and compiled in one Tome togither, beyng before ?cattered, & now in Print here exhibited to the Church (1573),
* 1900 , , "The Happy Man" in The Wild Knight and Other Poems :
To idolize.
* {{quote-book, 1608, (William Shakespeare), , section=Act V Scene III,
, passage=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".
* 2001 , Conrad C. Fink, Sportswriting: The Lively Game , page 78
to deify
* 1595 , (Edmund Spenser), Colin Clouts Come Home Againe .
* 1951 , (Eric Voegelin), Dante Germino ed., The New Science of Politics: An Introduction (1987), page 125
* 1956 , , Fritz Eichenberg, , page 241
Male servant.
# (now, rare) A male servant, in general senses.
# (historical, now, offensive) A non-white male servant, as used especially by whites in a colonial settlement etc.
# (now, offensive) A non-white male.
(obsolete) A lower-class or disreputable man; a worthless person.
* 1608 , (William Shakespeare), (King Lear) , Act I Scene 4:
A young male human; a male child or young adult.
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* (Walter Scott)
A man of any age, used as a friendly diminutive, or of a man who is merely younger than the speaker.
* 1977 , (Bert Newton), to (Mohammed Ali) at the 1977 Logie Awards:[http://www.abc.net.au/thingo/txt/s1088100.htm]
(colloquial) A male friend or fellow of some group, community etc. (mainly used in the plural).
(US, slang) Heroin.
to use the word boy to refer to someone
to act as a boy (qualifier, in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage)
* Shakespeare
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English
Noun
(wikipedia god) (en noun)- 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.
- The most frequently used name for the Islamic god is Allah.
- whose god is their belly
- Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods .
- Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts.
- 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 .
Usage notes
The word god is often applied both to males and to females. The word was originally neuter in Proto-Germanic; monotheistic – notably Judeo-Christian – usage completely shifted the gender to masculine, necessitating the development of a feminine form, goddess.Synonyms
* (supernatural being with superior powers) deity, See alsoDerived terms
(terms derived from "god") * demigod * God * god-awful * god-child, godchild * goddam, goddamn * goddaughter * Goddess * goddess * godded * godding * godfather * god-fearing * god forbid * god-forsaken, godforsaken * God-given * godhead * godhood * god-king, god king * godless * godlike * godliness * godling * godly * godmother * God of the gaps * godparent * godsend * godship * godson * Godspeed * godward * household god * ungodlyProper noun
(en-proper-noun)page 271/2:
- Golgotha's ghastly trinity—
- Three persons and one god .
Verb
(godd)- 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?
- Then got he bow and fhafts of gold and lead, / In which fo fell and puiflant he grew, / That Jove himfelfe 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.
See also
* agnosticism * apatheism * atheism * deism * divine * henotheism * kathenotheism * gnosticism * monolatrism * monotheism * pandeism * pantheism * polytheism * Tetragrammaton * theismReferences
*Anagrams
* (l), (l) 1000 English basic words ----boy
English
Alternative forms
* boi (Jamaican English)Noun
(en noun)- When the 'dipenda' (independence movement) in Belgian Congo turned violent, the white colonisers' often materially privileged black domestic boys were mistrusted and often abused as collaborators.
- Dost thou call me fool, boy ?
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- My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee.
- I like the boy .
Synonyms
* brat * knave * lad * squirt * youngster * youth * See alsoSee also
* (African-American) uncleAntonyms
* (young male) girlDerived terms
* altar boy * attaboy * bad boy * bagboy * ball boy, ballboy * bat boy * b-boy * bell boy, bellboy * best boy * big boys * blue-eyed boy * boi * boy band * boy-bishop * boy crazy * boyfriend * boy genius * boyhood * boy howdy * boyish * boyism * boykin (diminutive) * boy oh boy * boy racer * boys and their toys * boy scout * boytjie * boy toy * boys will be boys * boy wonder * bully boy * bum boy * cabin boy * city boy * college boy * copy boy * cowboy * delivery boy * doughboy * farm boy * frat boy * golden boy * homeboy * house boy * lawnboy * little boy * lowboy * mama’s boy]], [[mummy's boy, mummy’s boy * my boy * nancy boy * newsboy * office boy * oh boy * old boy * our boy * page boy, pageboy * paper boy, paperboy * pizza boy, pizzaboy * pool boy * poor boy, po’ boy * poster boy * potboy * pretty boy * rent boy * sailor boy * sea boy * shop boy * sonny boy * stableboy * tallboy * Teddy boy * tomboy * traffic boy * water boy * whipping boy * whiteboy, white boy * wide boy * wolf boy * yellow boy, yellow-boyDescendants
* Irish English: boyo * Vietnamese:Verb
(en verb)- I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness.