DEVI

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• DEVI (noun)
  The noun DEVI has 1 sense:

1. Hindu mother goddess; supreme power in the universe; wife or embodiment of the female energy of Siva having both beneficent and malevolent forms or aspects

  Familiarity information: DEVI used as a noun is very rare.

• DEVI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hindu mother goddess; supreme power in the universe; wife or embodiment of the female energy of Siva having both beneficent and malevolent forms or aspects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Hindu deity (a deity worshipped by the Hindus)

 Context examples 

A team led by Dr. Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital studied mutant mice that develop a condition resembling chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis in humans.

(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)