noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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His amazement can be imagined when there appeared be-fore him the wondrous forms of the three great goddesses .
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The west welcomed the great universal goddess as a phenomenon neither alien nor imposed from without.
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We have traced her history from the great goddesses of the pre-patriarchal period, especially Inanna and her handmaiden, Lilith.
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The great goddess Nemesis, which means righteous anger, undertook to bring this about.
■ NOUN
screen
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But when Meryl Streep tumbled off a plane at Heathrow yesterday, the screen goddess looked every inch a mortal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I talked to him the way Bhairon had sung to his goddess .
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It is a short deductive step to equate the pillar with the goddess Potnia or the Mistress of Animals.
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Lee lifted herself a little towards her goddess and rested herself on one elbow, looking up like a child, expectant.
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Then come the seated goddesses Demeter and Kore, and the fine upstanding figure of Artemis the hunter.
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Was she to be regarded as a ghost, a courtesan, lost lamb, misunderstood goddess ?
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We also learn that the interdependence of gods and goddesses extends to mortals.