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earth-goddess

American  
[urth-god-is] / ˈɜrθˌgɒd ɪs /
Or earth goddess

noun

  1. a goddess of fertility and vegetation.


Etymology

Origin of earth-goddess

First recorded in 1875–80


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Her earth-goddess magical powers make her a formidable ally, though she isn’t only that.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

All of which makes her sound like some kind of free-love, earth-goddess hippy.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2016

With a towering headwrap that's both vaguely African and vaguely Dr. Seussian, her slender form decked out in earth-goddess colors, she looks like nobody else in popular music.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gathering his officers about him in the open space at the foot of the wall, about a hundred paces north of the pine-tree of the earth-goddess, he curtly issued swift commands.

From A Captive of the Roman Eagles by Felix Dahn

The Egyptian earth-goddess, afterwards worshipped as the goddess of the moon.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin

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