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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEITY, n.
1. Godhead; divinity; the nature and essence of the Supreme Being; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is manifest in his works.
2. God; the Supreme Being, or infinite self-existing Spirit.
3. A fabulous god or goddess; a superior being supposed, by heathen nations, to exist, and to preside over particular departments of nature; as Jupiter, Juno, Apollo, Diana, etc.
4. The supposed divinity or divine qualities of a pagan god.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force [syn: deity, divinity, god, immortal]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Etymology: Middle English deitee, from Anglo-French deité, from Late Latin deitat-, deitas, from Latin deus god; akin to Old English T?w, god of war, Latin divus god, dies day, Greek dios heavenly, Sanskrit deva heavenly, god Date: 14th century 1. a. the rank or essential nature of a god ; divinity b. capitalized god 1, Supreme Being 2. a god or goddess <the deities of ancient Greece> 3. one exalted or revered as supremely good or powerful

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a god or goddess. 2 divine status, quality, or nature. 3 (the Deity) the Creator, God. Etymology: ME f. OF deité f. eccl.L deitas -tatis transl. Gk theotes f. theos god

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Deity De"i*ty, n.; pl. Deities. [OE. deite, F. d['e]it['e], fr. L. deitas, fr. deus a god; akin to divus divine, Jupiter, gen. Jovis, Jupiter, dies day, Gr. di^os divine, Zey`s, gen. Dio`s, Zeus, Skr. d[=e]va divine, as a noun, god, daiva divine, dy[=o] sky, day, hence, the sky personified as a god, and to the first syllable of E. Tuesday, Gael. & Ir. dia God, W. duw. Cf. Divine, Journey, Journal, Tuesday.] 1. The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works. They declared with emphasis the perfect deity and the perfect manhood of Christ. --Milman. 2. A god or goddess; a heathen god. To worship calves, the deities Of Egypt. --Milton. The Deity, God, the Supreme Being. This great poet and philosopher [Simonides], the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity, found that he waded but the more out of his depth. --Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(deities) A deity is a god or goddess. (FORMAL) N-COUNT: usu with supp

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Divinity, Godhead, the Divine Nature. 2. (Myth.) God or goddess.

Moby Thesaurus

Aides, Aidoneus, Amen-Ra, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Ares, Artemis, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Astraea, Athena, Atropos, Baal, Bellona, Bragi, Cailleac, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Cerberus, Ceres, Charon, Clio, Clotho, Cora, Cupid, Cynthia, Dame Fortune, Davy, Davy Jones, Decuma, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dike, Dionysos, Dionysus, Dis, Dis pater, Discordia, Donar, Dylan, Earth, Enyo, Erato, Erebus, Eris, Eros, Euterpe, Fata, Fates, Faunus, Flora, Fortuna, Frey, Freya, Frigg, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Hades, Heaven, Hecate, Hekate, Hel, Helicon, Helios, Hera, Hermes, Hestia, Hippocrene, Hymen, Hyperion, Indra, Isis, Juno, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Justice, Justitia, Kama, Kore, Lachesis, Loki, Love, Luna, Mars, Melpomene, Mercury, Minerva, Minos, Moirai, Morta, Muse, Nemesis, Neptune, Nereid, Nereus, Nona, Norns, Oceanid, Oceanus, Odin, Orcus, Osiris, Pan, Parcae, Parnassus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebe, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pierian Spring, Pierides, Pluto, Polyhymnia, Pomona, Poseidon, Priapus, Pronuba, Proserpina, Proserpine, Providence, Ra, Rhadamanthus, Satan, Savitar, Selene, Set, Shamash, Skuld, Sol, Surya, Teleia, Tellus, Terpsichore, Terra, Thalia, Themis, Thetis, Thor, Titan, Tiu, Triptolemos, Triptolemus, Triton, Tyche, Typhon, Tyr, Urdur, Varuna, Vayu, Venus, Verthandi, Vesta, Vidar, Vitharr, Weird Sisters, Weirds, Woden, Wotan, Zephyr, Zephyrus, Zeus, afflatus, artistic imagination, ball lightning, biosphere, blindfolded Justice, bolt, bolt of lightning, chain lightning, clash, clashing, commercialism, conception, conflict, contention, corn god, corn spirit, creative imagination, creative power, creative thought, creator, dark lightning, deep, demigod, demigoddess, disaccord, disaffinity, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dread rattling thunder, enmity, esemplastic imagination, esemplastic power, faun, fertility god, field spirit, fire of genius, fireball, firebolt, flying flame, forest god, forked lightning, fresh-water nymph, friction, fulguration, fulmination, genius, geography, geosphere, globe, god, goddess, hero, heroine, idol, incompatibility, incompatibleness, industrialism, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inspiration, jangle, jar, kelpie, lares and penates, levin bolt, lightning, limniad, man fish, mercantilism, mermaid, merman, mischief, mother earth, muse, mythicization, mythification, mythopoeia, naiad, nix, nixie, noncooperation, oak-cleaving thunderbolts, ocean nymph, open conflict, panisc, panisca, paniscus, peal of thunder, phoenix, poesy, poetic genius, poetic imagination, rub, satyr, sea devil, sea god, sea nymph, sea-maid, sea-maiden, seaman, shaping imagination, sheet lightning, silenus, siren, strained relations, stroke of lightning, sylvan deity, tension, terra, terrestrial globe, the Muses, the blue planet, the goat god, this pendent world, thunder, thunderball, thunderbolt, thunderclap, thundercrack, thundering, thunderpeal, thunderstorm, thunderstroke, undine, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, vale, vale of tears, vegetation spirit, water god, water spirit, water sprite, whole wide world, world