Goddess vs. Woman — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Goddess and Woman
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Goddess
A goddess is a female deity. Goddesses have been linked with virtues such as beauty, love, sexuality, motherhood, creativity, and fertility (exemplified by the ancient mother goddess cult).
Woman
A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent).
Goddess
A female deity
Athena Nike, goddess of victory
Woman
An adult female human.
Goddess
A female being of supernatural powers or attributes, believed in and worshiped by a people.
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Woman
Women considered as a group; womankind
“Woman feels the invidious distinctions of sex exactly as the black man does those of color” (Elizabeth Cady Stanton).
Goddess
Often Goddess A female being believed to be the source of life and being and worshiped as the principal deity in various religions. Used with the.
Woman
An adult female human belonging to a specified occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination
An Englishwoman.
Congresswoman.
A saleswoman.
Goddess
An image of a female supernatural being; an idol.
Woman
A female servant or subordinate.
Goddess
Something, such as fame or wealth, that is worshiped or idealized.
Woman
A wife.
Goddess
A woman of great beauty or grace.
Woman
A female lover or sweetheart. See Usage Notes at chairman, female, lady, man.
Goddess
(religion) A female deity.
Woman
An adult female human.
Goddess
(figuratively) A woman honored or adored as physically attractive or of superior charm and intelligence.
Woman
(collective) All female humans collectively; womankind.
Goddess
(figuratively) A woman of substantial authority or influence.
Woman
A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
Goddess
A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.
When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty.
Woman
A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).
Goddess
A woman of superior charms or excellence.
Woman
A female person who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. Used as the last element of a compound.
Goddess
A female deity
Woman
A female attendant or servant.
Woman
To staff with female labor.
Woman
(transitive) To make effeminate or womanish.
Woman
(transitive) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
Woman
(transitive) To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.
Woman
Of or relating to a woman/women; female.
Woman
An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.
I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.
Woman
The female part of the human race; womankind.
Man is destined to be a prey to woman.
Woman
A female attendant or servant.
Woman
To act the part of a woman in; - with indefinite it.
Woman
To make effeminate or womanish.
Woman
To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
Woman
An adult female person (as opposed to a man);
The woman kept house while the man hunted
Woman
Women as a class;
It's an insult to American womanhood
Woman is the glory of creation
Woman
A human female who does housework;
The char will clean the carpet
Woman
A female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man;
He was faithful to his woman
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