Definitions for earth-goddess

earth-goddess earth-god·dess

Spelling: [urth-god-is]
IPA: /ˈɜrθˌgɒd ɪs/

Earth-Goddess is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 1190 anagrams from letters in earth-goddess (-addeeghorsst).

Definitions for earth-goddess

noun

  1. a goddess of fertility and vegetation.

Origin of earth-goddess

First recorded in 1875-80

Examples for earth-goddess

Her historical connection with the great Asian earth-goddess, the Mother-Goddess, is uncertain.

The earth-goddess is not banished, but remains as consort of the male divinity.

She may thus represent the old earth-goddess, whose place the native Dispater gradually usurped.

Both μέλαινα and ἐρινύς, according to Farnell, are epithets of Demeter as an earth-goddess of the under-world.

The Gondhalis are the village priests of Devi, the earth-goddess, who is also frequently the tutelary goddess of the village.

To draw from a child caught unawares the force and the brooding love of an earth-goddess.

Arianrhod, wife and sister of Gwydion, is perhaps an earth-goddess, but her significance is obscure.

These rites recall our May day observance, and give colour to the earth-goddess theory.

The earth-goddess Toci or Teteoinnan was regarded as the progenitrix or mother of the gods.

The other party then claimed the land on the ground that the earth-goddess had proved him to have perjured himself.

Word Value for earth-goddess
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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