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Odin

[oh-din]

noun

Scandinavian Mythology.
  1. the ruler of the Aesir and god of war, poetry, knowledge, and wisdom; Wotan: the chief god.



Odin

/ ˈəʊdɪn, ˈəʊðɪn /

noun

  1. Germanic counterpart: Wotan. Woden.Norse myth the supreme creator god; the divinity of wisdom, culture, war, and the dead

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Odin

  1. In Norse mythology, the solemn ruler of the gods. He was god of wisdom, poetry, farming, and war.

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Wednesday is named after Odin, using a form of his name that begins with W.
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Other Word Forms

  • Odinian adjective
  • Odinic adjective
  • Odinitic adjective
  • Odinism noun
  • Odinist noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Odin1

From Old Norse Ōٳ󾱲Բ; cognate with Old English ō, Old Saxon Woden, Old High German Wuotan; Woden
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The nighttime and interior shots are so dark that you begin to pray, for Odin’s sake: Can someone please turn on the lights?

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The design depicts a man dancing a jig while holding a Christian cross above a symbol linked to the Norse god Odin.

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When she’s not writing, she’s teaching yoga sculpt and strength training classes at CorePower Yoga or taking care of her dogs, Odin and Hash Brown.

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He has written a paper with Neil Price, currently professor of archaeology at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, about ritual depictions of the one-eyed Norse god Odin.

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I didn't think that the trials were that interesting — the murder trials — because it was kind of obvious that he'd killed Odin Lloyd.

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