god : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events
  force majeure; inevitable accident; unavoidable casualty; vis major.
  
  • he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God

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• . (Law) See under Act.

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• noun a charismatic Protestant denomination in the United States
  

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Bel"ly-god` noun

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1. One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.

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• noun phrases used to refer to Heaven
  Celestial City; Heavenly City; Holy City.
  
  • the Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's `Pilgrim's Progress'

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• noun a god of fertility and vegetation
  earth god.
  

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• noun a god of fertility and vegetation
  earth god.
  

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• noun God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
  Father; Fatherhood.
  
  • hear our prayers, Heavenly Father

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• noun one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns
  satyr.
  

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• the occupants of the highest and cheapest gallery of a theater. Colloq.

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• (Pagan Mythol.), the powers supposed to preside over marriage and generation.

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• noun (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus
  Pan.
  

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• noun terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
  Jehovah; Creator; Almighty; Lord; Divine; Maker; Godhead.
  

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• adverb by some means not understood by the speaker
  
  • God knows how he did it, but he did climbed that steep wall

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• noun a god worshipped as giving victory in war
  god of war.
  

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• noun massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber
  Ceiba pentandra; Bombay ceiba; kapok; silk-cotton tree; white silk-cotton tree; ceiba tree.
  

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• noun the yard associated with a church
  churchyard.
  

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• a burial place; a churchyard. See under Acre.

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• . (a) An almshouse. Obs. (b) A church.

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• earnest penny. Obs. Beau. & Fl.

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• Easter.

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• noun the omnipotence of a divine being
  

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• noun the omniscience of a divine being
  

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• adjective satellite very unpleasant
  hellish; beastly.
  
  • hellish weather
  • stop that god-awful racket

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• adjective satellite deeply religious
  devout.
  
  • a god-fearing and law-abiding people" H.L.Mencken

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God"-fear`ing adjective

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1. Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; religious.

   A brave good-fearing man. Tennyson.

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• noun (Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God
  free grace; grace.
  
  • God's grace is manifested in the salvation of sinners
  • there but for the grace of God go I

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• adjective satellite (used informally especially for emphasis)
  honest-to-goodness; old; sure-enough.
  
  • a real honest-to-god live cowboy
  • had us a high old time
  • went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel

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• noun any building where congregations gather for prayer
  place of worship; house of worship; house of prayer.
  

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• (Rom. Antiq.), the gods presiding over the house and family; the Lares and Penates; hence, all objects endeared by association with home.

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• noun the spiritual domain over which God is sovereign
  

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• noun beyond human control or responsibility; it's in the lap of the gods now"
  
  • there is nothing more I can do

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• noun a classical Greek god after the overthrow of the Titans
  Olympian.
  

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• noun a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon
  Hizbullah; Organization of the Oppressed on Earth; Lebanese Hizballah; Islamic Jihad; Hezbollah; Hizballah; Hizbollah; Revolutionary Justice Organization; Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine.
  

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• a deity supposed to preside over a river as its tutelary divinity.

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• noun king of the Huns; the most successful barbarian invader of the Roman Empire (406-453)
  Attila; Attila the Hun; Scourge of God.
  

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• noun king of the Huns; the most successful barbarian invader of the Roman Empire (406-453)
  Attila; Attila the Hun; Scourge of God.
  

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• noun a deity that personifies the sea and is usually believed to live in or to control the sea
  

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Sea" god`

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1. A marine deity; a fabulous being supposed to live in, or have dominion over, the sea, or some particular sea or part of the sea, as Neptune.

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• noun a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
  zombie; zombi.
  

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• noun an Islamic extremist group of Kurds who oppose secular control with bombings and assassinations; believed to have ties with al-Qaeda
  Jund-ul-Islam.
  

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• noun a god that personifies the sun or is otherwise associated with the sun
  

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• Cupid.

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• noun deciduous rapidly growing tree of China with foliage like sumac and sweetish fetid flowers; widely planted in United States as a street tree because of its resistance to pollution
  tree of heaven; Ailanthus altissima.
  

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• noun myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil
  Gotterdammerung; Ragnarok.
  

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• noun a god worshipped as giving victory in war
  god of war.
  

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Wa"ter god`

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1. (Myth.) A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.

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• a fabled sylvan deity.

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• noun a manifestation of the mind and will of God
  
• noun the sacred writings of the Christian religions
  Christian Bible; Bible; Word; Holy Writ; Holy Scripture; Book; Good Book; Scripture.
  
  • he went to carry the Word to the heathen
• noun the message of the Gospel of Christ
  

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