Thor Definition

thôr
noun
The god of thunder, war, and strength, and a son of Odin, armed with a magic hammer.
Webster's New World
pronoun
(Norse mythology) The god of thunder.
Wiktionary

(Geordie) Their.

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A male given name occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.

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adverb

(Geordie) There.

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(Geordie) They're (they are)
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Origin of Thor

  • Representing Old Norse Þórr (Swedish Tor); cognate with Old English þunor.

    From Wiktionary

  • Old Norse Thōrr (s)tenə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Thor Sentence Examples

  • The Varangian god Perun was probably Thor himself under a Slavonic name (Russian perun, "thunderbolt").

  • Odin's wife was Frigg; their sons were Thor (the thunder-god) and Balder, whose myth is well known in English poetry.

  • Human sacrifices to Thor and the other gods are not often mentioned.

  • The name thoria (after the Scandinavian god Thor) was first given in 1815 by Berzelius to a supposed new earth which he had extracted from several rare Swedish minerals.

  • Wednesday was assigned to the planet Mercury, the equivalent of the Germanic god Woden; Thursday to Jupiter, the equivalent of Thor; and Friday to Friga, the goddess of love, who is represented by Venus among the Romans and among the Babylonians by Ishtar.

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Words Starting With

TTHTHO

Words Ending With

RORHOR

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Thor

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