a being having superhuman powers and control over a particular part of life or the world <in some belief systems, natural forces like the wind and the sea were gods>
a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion <in the eyes of many film critics, Alfred Hitchcock is one of the undisputed gods of cinema>
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