Definition of "God"
God
proper noun
usually uncountable, plural Gods
The single deity of various monotheistic religions, especially the deity of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Quotations
This is a sad time for all people. We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help — and God's.
1971 , Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, page 17
The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions.
Quotations
This reduces the successful invocation of God to a function of the presence of male genitalia. Put another way, women have the wrong equipment to invoke God.Goddess and God flow throughout all of nature, through each and every man and woman, becoming fully present in the world.
2005, Nikki Bado-Fralick, Coming to the Edge of the Circle, page 45
(philosophy) The transcendent principle, for example the ultimate cause or prime mover, often not considered as a person.
Quotations
God (the great everlasting infinite First Cause from whom all things in heaven and earth proceed) [translating Chinese 道] can neither be defined nor named.
1895, “The Tâo-Tĭh-King, or Thoughts on the Nature and Manifestations of God”, in G. G. Alexander, transl., Lâo-Tsze the Great Thinker […], page 55
Now, if night, winter, hunger, and war, which describe the God’s appearance as the multiple world, are his ‘scents’ and ‘names’, the same must be true of the world’s several constituents: all created things are just transient ‘scents’, and their names misnomers, of the fiery God.
2017, Aryeh Finkelberg, Heraclitus and Thales’ Conceptual Scheme: A Historical Study, page 156
noun
plural Gods