the gods

plural noun

British

: the highest and cheapest seats in a theater

The people in the gods can be the hardest to please.

Examples of the gods in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In Atrahasis, noisy humans become annoying to the gods, so the gods drown them. — Eric Vanden Eykel, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2026

Eager to interpret the gods’ will—surely, stones that trailed light must hold sacred portent—the Romans consulted the Sibylline Books. — Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026

To kneel at the altar of the market, to pray to the gods of the ultra-wealthy—these are not categorical values bestowed upon humanity, tenets beamed down to us from the cosmos. — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Such fearsome creatures posed a threat to the gods on Mount Olympus. — George Loewenstein, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for the gods

• applauds
• facades
• tripods
• amphipods
• arthropods
• copepods
• gastropods
• isopods
• pleopods
• tetrapods
• brachiopods
• cephalopods