Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The goddess of the heavens and wife of Odin.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Norse myth., the wife of Odin and the queen of the gods.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Scand. Myth.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.

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  • proper noun Germanic mythology, Norse mythology The wife of Odin, and the Norse/Germanic goddess of married love, the heavens, home and hearth, after whom Friday is named (due to her being identified with Venus).

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  • noun (Norse mythology) goddess of the heavens and married love; wife of Odin

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Old Norse; see prī- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Old Norse Frigg, from Proto-Germanic *Frijjō.

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Examples

  • If so, didn't you think that the woman fiddler in Frigg looked way too much like Meg?

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway markgritter 2008

  • His wife was called Frigg, and their offspring is the Asa-stock, who dwell in Asgard and the realms about it, and all that stock are known to be gods.

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • His wife was called Frigg, and their offspring is the Asa-stock, who dwell in Asgard and the realms about it, and all that stock are known to be gods.

    The Story of the Volsungs Anonymous 1873

  • 'The Secret War of Harry Frigg' (1968) Paul Newman is the incorrigible U.S. Army private who allows himself to be captured by the Italians during World War II so he can free five captured Allied military bigwigs (French, British and American).

    'Crowne': A Bad Fit for Hollywood Royalty John Anderson 2011

  • Frigg, Queen of the Aesir, wife of Odin the shape-shifter, look down from Asgard, where you sit before your wheel in Fensalir spinning golden thread.”

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • Frigg, Queen of the Aesir, wife of Odin the shape-shifter, look down from Asgard, where you sit before your wheel in Fensalir spinning golden thread.”

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • Frigg, Queen of the Aesir, wife of Odin the shape-shifter, look down from Asgard, where you sit before your wheel in Fensalir spinning golden thread.”

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • Cute cute cute! on March 15, 2009 at 6: 01 pm | Reply Frigg

    Bento #181 « Were rabbits 2008

  • And I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Harry Frigg, which was probably the first movie I ever saw him in and is probably why I've always thought of him as a great comic actor rather than a romantic leading man.

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • And I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Harry Frigg, which was probably the first movie I ever saw him in and is probably why I've always thought of him as a great comic actor rather than a romantic leading man.

    "You keep thinking, Butch, that's what you're good at." 2008

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