Courage is a man with a gun in his hand
Greeks believed in gods that they always prayed to. All Greeks worship the gods and always had a ritual. They are sacred to them. It was sometimes a law to praise the gods. They had celebrations to worship gods. They believed in monotheism and polytheism sometimes.
A suggested meaning of a word that differs from the dictionary meaning is called a connotation.
It is also the theoretical definition or purpose of a word, that makes a policy on circumscribing whichever things or ideas it refers to.