GODDESS Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

goddess

noun

ˈgä-dəs

Definition of goddess

as in queen

a usually glamorous woman who is preeminent in her field of activity She is known as one of the goddesses of the silver screen during the silent era.

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as in beauty

an attractive woman Like any guy in love, he thought his new girlfriend was a goddess.

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Recent Examples of goddess It was worshipped as a goddess, believed to drive people mad, and even considered a realm for the dead. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026 Protecting a kelp goddess Sunflower stars were never a big part of Samish culture, unlike salmon. — John Ryan, NPR, 16 Aug. 2026 The cast includes Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson, Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood, Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase and Dafne Keen as the goddess Artemis. — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026 Did Penelope, Helen of Troy, Athena, Calypso, and the rest of the Greek gals and goddesses deserve to be more epic than the attractive but flattened handmaidens even IMAX couldn’t enhance? — Lisa Henricksson, Air Mail, 8 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for goddess

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Noun

Country queen and national treasure Dolly Parton may have physically left the world on Tuesday, but her indelible mark on the world and the industry will never be forgotten.

— Isabelle Farina, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026
The country queen wore the whole story of American music on her shoulders like a coat of many colors.

— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of queen

Noun

This hermetic secrecy is how Allure beauty director Sarah Kinonen and I recently found ourselves in the bathroom of a suite in the Aman hotel on New York’s Fifth Avenue, brushing our teeth while members of the Dyson public relations team looked on.

— Jenny Bailly, Allure, 1 Sep. 2026
As the affiliate industry grows, particularly for fashion brands and beauty brands which increasingly route a growing share of sales through such links, the answer is getting harder to parse.

— Tom Matsuda, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of beauty

Noun

By the early ‘90s, country radio had moved on to a younger generation of performers, and Shania Twain was the reigning country diva.

— Chris Morris, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026
The group — made up of high-strung news freelancer Billie (Lucy Freyer), chaotic diva Issa (Amita Rao), and life-of-the-party Anton (Owen Thiele) — are all at different places in love, life, and career.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2026

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