- 1神祇；神明
A deity is a god or a goddess. The word is a little formal and a little distant; children say god and goddess, while deity turns up in textbooks, museums, and careful talk about many religions at once (a Hindu deity, a Greek deity). It can mean one named figure. “The deity” can also mean God in a cool, formal way, as if the speaker is not using a personal name. People stretch it in criticism too: “He thinks he is a deity” means he acts as if he were one. It is not a person’s everyday name, and it has nothing to do with diet.
From the word’s history
From Middle French deité, from Latin deitās.
借自中古法文 deité，源自拉丁文 deitās。
組成From Middle French deité, from Latin deitās, from deus (“god”).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
deitynoun/ˈdiː.ɪ.ti/
- 1
Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.
- Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee.
- 2
A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess.
- The fact that in most lands the moon was originally a female deity has led many historians to dispute the superiority of the moon over the sun in ancient mythology.
- Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity.
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