deity definition

See also: $DEITY

English

Alternative forms

deitie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French deité, from Latin deitās.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.ɪ.tɪ/, /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.tɪ/, /ˈdeɪ̯ə.tɪ/
- /ˈdiː.ɪ.tɪ/, UK (file)
- /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.tɪ/, UK (file)
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(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.ə.ti/, [ˈdi.ə.ɾi], /ˈdeɪ.ə.ti/, [ˈdeɪ.ə.ɾi]
Hyphenation: de‧i‧ty

Noun

deity (countable and uncountable, plural deities)

Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god. [from 14th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 4:
  Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee.
A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess. [from 14th c.]
- 2000, Kenneth Seeskin, Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 23:
  The crux of monotheism is not only belief in a single deity but belief in a deity who is different from everything else.

Synonyms

(a god): See Thesaurus:god

Hyponyms

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to deity

Translations

divinity — see divinity

a god — see also god,‎ God

Albanian: hyj (sq) m, hyjni (sq) m, perëndi (sq) m
Arabic: إِلٰه‎ (ar) m (ʔilāh), مَعْبُود‎ m (maʕbūd)
Belarusian: бо́ства n (bóstva), бажаство́ n (bažastvó)
Bulgarian: божество́ (bg) n (božestvó)
Catalan: deïtat (ca) f, divinitat (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 神 (zh) (shén), 神明 (zh) (shénmíng), 神靈／神灵 (zh) (shénlíng)
Crimean Tatar: mabut
Czech: božstvo (cs) n
Danish: guddom c, deitet c
Dutch: godheid (nl) f
Dzongkha: ལྷ (lha)
Esperanto: dio (eo), diaĵo
Fijian: kalou
Finnish: jumala (fi), jumalatar (fi), jumalolento, jumaluus (fi)
French: déité (fr) f, divinité (fr) f
Galician: divinidade f
Georgian: ღვთაება (ɣvtaeba), ღმერთი (ka) (ɣmerti)
German: Gott (de) m, Gottheit (de) f
Greek: θεότητα (el) f (theótita)
Hebrew: אלוהים \ אֱלֹהִים‎ (he) m (elohím), אֵל‎ (he) m (el)
Hindi: देवता (hi) m (devtā)
Hungarian: istenség (hu), isten (hu)
Ido: deo (io)
Italian: deità, divinità (it) f
Japanese: 神仏 (ja) (しんぶつ, shinbutsu), 神 (ja) (かみ, kami)
Korean: 신 (ko) (sin)
Latin: deus (la) m, deitas f, divinitas f,
Latvian: dievība f
Macedonian: божество n (božestvo)
Malay: tuhan, dewa m, dewi f
Norwegian: gud (no) m
Bokmål: guddom m

Nynorsk: guddom m
Pela: jui⁵⁵
Persian: ایزد‎ (fa) (izad)
Plautdietsch: Gott (nds) m
Polish: bóstwo (pl) n, bożyszcze (pl) n
Portuguese: deus (pt) m, deusa (pt) f, divindade (pt) f
Punjabi: ਭਗਵਾਨ (bhagvān)
Romanian: dumnezeu (ro) f, divinitate (ro) f
Russian: божество́ (ru) n (božestvó)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: божа̀нство n

Roman: božànstvo (sh) n
Sinhalese: දෙවියන් (dewiyan)
Slovak: božstvo n
Slovene: božanstvo (sl) n
Spanish: dios (es) m, diosa (es) f, deidad (es) f, divinidad (es) f
Tagalog: anito, diyus-diyusan, batha-bathalaan
Tibetan: ལྷ (lha)
Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎍 (ỉl)
Ukrainian: божество́ (uk) n (božestvó)
Urdu: ایزد‎ (ezad)
Vietnamese: thần (vi)
Yoruba: olukaluku

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Dictionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Kannada: ^{(please verify)} ದೇವ (kn) (dēva)
Korean: ^{(please verify)} 신성 (ko) (sinseong)
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} zeitate (ro) f
Slovak: (1, 2) ^{(please verify)} božstvo n, (2) ^{(please verify)} bôžik m
Telugu: ^{(please verify)} దైవం (te) (daivaṁ)

References

^ The American Heritage Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1996, →ISBN.

Anagrams

Tidey, etyid

[1] The American Heritage Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1996, →ISBN.

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