Goddess vs. Mistress
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Goddess
A goddess is a female deity. Goddesses have been linked with virtues such as beauty, love, motherhood and fertility (Mother-goddess cult in prehistoric times). They have also been associated with ideas such as war, creation, and death.
In some faiths, a sacred female figure holds a central place in religious prayer and worship. For example, Shaktism, the worship of the female force that animates the world, is one of the three major sects of Hinduism.
The primacy of a monotheistic or near-monotheistic "Great Goddess" is advocated by some modern matriarchists as a female version of, preceding, or analogue to, the Abrahamic God associated with the historical rise of monotheism in the Mediterranean Axis Age.
Polytheist religions, including Polytheistic reconstructionists, honour multiple goddesses and gods, and usually view them as discrete, separate beings. These deities may be part of a pantheon, or different regions may have tutelary deities. The reconstructionists, like their ancient forebears, honour the deities particular to their country of origin.
Goddess (noun)
A female deity.
Goddess (noun)
A woman honored or adored as physically attractive or of superior charm and intelligence.
Goddess (noun)
A woman of substantial authority or influence.
Mistress (noun)
A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership.
"She was the mistress of the estate-mansion, and owned the horses."
Mistress (noun)
A female teacher.
"games mistress"
Mistress (noun)
The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.
Mistress (noun)
A dominatrix.
Mistress (noun)
A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
Mistress (noun)
A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart.
Mistress (noun)
A married woman; a wife.
Mistress (noun)
The jack in the game of bowls.
Mistress (noun)
A female companion to a master a man with control, authority or ownership
Mistress (verb)
Of a woman: to master; to learn or develop to a high degree of proficiency.
Mistress (verb)
To act or take the role of a mistress.
Goddess (noun)
a female deity
"Athena Nike, goddess of victory"
Goddess (noun)
a woman who is greatly admired, especially for her beauty
"he had an affair with a screen goddess"
Goddess (noun)
A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.
Goddess (noun)
A woman of superior charms or excellence.
Mistress (noun)
A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.
Mistress (noun)
A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
Mistress (noun)
A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
Mistress (noun)
A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a woman having an ongoing usually exclusive sexual relationship with a man, who may provide her with financial support in return; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually; as, both his wife and his mistress attended his funeral.
Mistress (noun)
A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.
Mistress (noun)
A married woman; a wife.
Mistress (noun)
The old name of the jack at bowls.
Mistress (verb)
To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.
Goddess (noun)
a female deity
Mistress (noun)
an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
Mistress (noun)
a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
Mistress (noun)
a woman master who directs the work of others
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