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god | leader |

As a verb god

is .

As a noun leader is

any person that s or directs.

god

English

Noun

(wikipedia god) (en noun)
  • A deity.
  • # A supernatural, typically immortal being with superior powers.
  • # A male deity.
  • #* 2002 , Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby :
  • 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.
  • # A supreme being; God.
  • The most frequently used name for the Islamic god is Allah.
  • 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
  • whose god is their belly
  • (metaphor) A person in a high position of authority; a powerful ruler or tyrant.
  • An exceedingly handsome man.
  • Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods .
  • * Wilfred Owen, Disabled (poem)
  • Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts.
  • (Internet) The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.
  • * 1996 , Andy Eddy, Internet after hours
  • The gods usually have several wizards, or "immortals," to assist them in building the MUD.
  • * 2003 , David Lojek, Emote to the Max (page 11)
  • 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 also

    Derived 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 * ungodly

    Proper noun

    (en-proper-noun)
  • * 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), page 271/2:
  • * 1900 , , "The Happy Man" in The Wild Knight and Other Poems :
  • Golgotha's ghastly trinity—
    Three persons and one god .

    Verb

    (godd)
  • 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".
  • To men the first necessity is gods; / And if the gods were not, / " Man would invent them, tho' they godded stones.
  • * 2001 , Conrad C. Fink, Sportswriting: The Lively Game , page 78
  • "Godded him up" ... It's the fear of discerning journalists: Does coverage of athletic stars, on field and off, approach beatification of the living?
  • to deify
  • * 1595 , (Edmund Spenser), Colin Clouts Come Home Againe .
  • 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.
  • * 1951 , (Eric Voegelin), Dante Germino ed., The New Science of Politics: An Introduction (1987), page 125
  • The superman marks the end of a road on which we find such figures as the "godded man" of English Reformation mystics
  • * 1956 , , Fritz Eichenberg, , page 241
  • "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 * theism

    References

    *

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l) 1000 English basic words ----

    leader

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any person that s or directs.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Philip E. Mirowski , title=Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits , volume=100, issue=1, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
  • # One who goes first.
  • Follow the leader .
  • # One having authority to direct.
  • We elected her team leader .
  • # One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
  • # A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
  • The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.
  • # (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
  • # (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
  • An animal that leads.
  • # The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
  • #*
  • # An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
  • #*
  • Something that leads or conducts.
  • # (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
  • #*
  • # A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
  • # (UK) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
  • # (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
  • # A piece of material at the beginning or end of a to allow the material to the threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
  • # (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
  • # (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
  • # (printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
  • # (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
  • #*
  • # (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
  • # (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
  • # (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
  • Synonyms

    * (person that leads or conducts) guide, conductor * (one with authority to direct) chief, chieftain, commander * (music) conductor * (dominant animal in group) alpha, pack leader * (engineering) driver, drive wheel

    Derived terms

    * (l) * group leader * leaderboard * leaderette * leaderless * leader of the opposition * leadership * majority leader * minority leader * pack leader * thought leader

    Descendants

    * Portuguese: * Spanish:

    See also

    * baron/baroness * conductor * duke/duchess * emperor/empress * follower * general * governor * king/queen * mayor * monarch * president * sergeant

    Anagrams

    * * English agent nouns ----