odin Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun (Norse mythology) ruler of the Aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of Frigg; identified with the Teutonic Wotan
WordNet
O"din noun
Etymology
Icel. prob.akin to E.Definitions
(Northern Myth.) The supreme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as Woden , of the German tribes.There in the Temple, carved in wood, The image of great Odin stood. Longfellow.