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Noun god has 4 senses
  1. God, Supreme Being - the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
    --1 is a kind of spiritual being, supernatural being
    --1 has particulars:
     Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah; Yahweh, YHWH, Yahwe, Yahveh, YHVH, Yahve, Wahvey, Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah, JHVH; Allah
  2. deity, divinity, god, immortal - any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
    --2 is a kind of spiritual being, supernatural being
    --2 is a member of pantheon
    --2 has particulars:
     Demogorgon; Hypnos; Morpheus; daemon, demigod; Fates, the Fates, Weird Sisters; sea-god; sun-god; Celtic deity; Egyptian deity; Semitic deity; Hindu deity; Persian deity; Bodhisattva, Boddhisatva; Arhat, Arhant, lohan; Chinese deity; Japanese deity; goddess; earth-god; demiurge; Greco-Roman deity, Graeco-Roman deity; Greek deity; Roman deity; Norse deity; Teutonic deity; Anglo-Saxon deity; Phrygian deity; Quetzalcoatl; saint; war god, god of war; zombi, zombie, snake god
  3. god - a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people; "he was a god among men"
    --3 is a kind of     superior, higher-up, superordinate
  4. idol, graven image, god - a material effigy that is worshipped as a god; "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"; "money was his god"
    --4 is a kind of effigy, image, simulacrum
    --4 has particulars: golden calf; joss; Juggernaut
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