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In addition to the idioms beginning with GOD, Also see ACT OF GOD; FOR GOD'S SAKE; HONEST TO GOD; LAP OF THE GODS; MILLS OF GODS GRIND SLOWLY; MY GOD; PUT THE FEAR OF GOD IN; SO HELP ME (GOD); THANK GOD; THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD; TIN GOD.
American Heritage Idioms
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noun
creator:
God created the heavens and earth.
Simple Definitions
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God
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believe in God
• Do you believe in God?
pray to God
• They prayed to God for forgiveness.
worship God
(= show love and respect for God )
• Hinduism tells everyone to worship God in his own faith.
praise God
• They came to the church to praise God.
God exists
• I believe that God exists.
phrases
belief/faith in God
• About one-third of the population has no belief in God. • Her faith in God helped her deal with her illness.
God’s will/the will of God
(= what God wants to happen )
• He believed it was God’s will that they should suffer.
Almighty God/God Almighty
(= used to emphasize God's power )
• He swore by Almighty God to tell the truth.
the word of God
(= what God says )
• Missionaries traveled the world to tell people the word of God.
a gift from God
• Life is a gift from God.
God’s existence/the existence of God
• Philosophers argued about the existence of God.
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noun ADJ. pagan | Christian, Greek, Roman, etc. | heathen, false those who follow false gods | fertility | sun VERB + GOD believe in, follow, have Do you believe in God? Muslims have only one God. | praise, pray to, thank, worship The people worshipped pagan gods. GOD + VERB exist Can we prove that God exists? PREP. ~ of the Roman god of war PHRASES faith in God Nothing ever shook her faith in God. | the will of God He saw the accident as the will of God.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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god
a male spirit or being who is believed by some religions to control the world or part of it, or who represents a particular quality:
• Odin was the Viking god of war.
goddess
a female god:
• Artemis, the Greek goddess of the moon
deity
a god. Deity is more formal than god:
• a Hindu deity • Roman deities • the Supreme Deity
idol
a picture or statue that people pray to as a god:
• a bronze idol
someone who does not believe in God
atheist
noun , adjective someone who believes that God does not exist:
• I’m a confirmed atheist.
agnostic
noun , adjective someone who believes that people cannot know whether God exists or not:
• He was an agnostic rather than an atheist.
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