English noun: deity |
1. | deity (person) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force |
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| Synonyms | divinity, god, immortal |
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| Broader (hypernym) | spiritual being, supernatural being |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Anglo-Saxon deity, Celtic deity, Chinese deity, daemon, demigod, demiurge, earth god, earth-god, Egyptian deity, god of war, goddess, Graeco-Roman deity, Greco-Roman deity, Greek deity, Hindu deity, Japanese deity, Norse deity, Persian deity, Phrygian deity, Roman deity, saint, sea god, Semitic deity, snake god, sun god, Teutonic deity, war god, zombi, zombie |
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| Instance hyponym | Arhant, Arhat, Boddhisatva, Bodhisattva, Demogorgon, Hypnos, lohan, Morpheus, Quetzalcoatl |
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| Member meronym | pantheon |
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