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de·i·ty

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–noun, plural -ties.

1.	a god or goddess.

2.	divine character or nature, esp. that of the Supreme Being; divinity.

3.	the estate or rank of a god: The king attained deity after his death.

4.	a person or thing revered as a god or goddess: a society in which money is the only deity.

5.	the Deity, God; Supreme Being.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME deite < OF < LL deitāt- (s. of deitās), equiv. to L dei- (comb. form of deus god) + -tāt- -ty, formed after L dīvīnitās divinity

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n. pl. de·i·ties

A god or goddess.
1. The essential nature or condition of being a god; divinity.
2. Deity God. Used with the.

[Middle English deite, from Old French, from Late Latin deitās, divine nature, from Latin deus, god; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots.]

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deity

c.1300, from O.Fr. deite, from L.L. deitatem (nom. deitas) "divine nature," coined by Augustine from L. deus "god," from PIE *deiwos (see Zeus).

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deity
noun
any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

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deity [ˈdeiəti, (American) ˈdi:əti] noun — plural ˈdeities

a god or goddess
Example: Bacchus was one of the Roman deities.

Arabic:	إله، آلِهَه
Chinese (Simplified):	上帝，神
Chinese (Traditional):	上帝，神
Czech:	božstvo
Danish:	guddom; guddommelighed
Dutch:	godheid
Estonian:	jumalus
Finnish:	jumala
French:	dieu, déesse
German:	die Gottheit
Greek:	θεότητα
Hungarian:	istenség
Icelandic:	goð eða gyðja
Indonesian:	dewata
Italian:	divinità

Japanese:	神
Latvian:	dievība
Lithuanian:	dievybė
Norwegian:	gud(dom), gudinne
Polish:	bóstwo
Portuguese (Brazil):	divindade
Portuguese (Portugal):	divindade
Romanian:	zeu, zeiţă
Russian:	божество
Slovak:	božstvo
Slovenian:	božanstvo
Spanish:	deidad, divinidad
Swedish:	gud, gudinna
Turkish:	tanrı(ça)