From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Religiongoddessgod‧dess, Goddess /ˈɡɒdɪs $ ˈɡɑː-/ ●●○ noun [countable]1RRa femalebeing who is believed to control the world or part of it, or represents a particular quality
Aphrodite, goddess of love2 →screen goddessExamples from the Corpusgoddess• We also learn that the interdependence of gods and goddessesextends to mortals.• Leelifted herself a little towards her goddess and rested herself on one elbow, looking up like a child, expectant.• I talked to him the way Bhairon had sung to his goddess.• Was she to be regarded as a ghost, a courtesan, lost lamb, misunderstoodgoddess?• Then come the seatedgoddesses Demeter and Kore, and the fine upstanding figure of Artemis the hunter.• It is a short deductivestep to equate the pillar with the goddess Potnia or the Mistress of Animals.
