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

  • noun The Germanic god of war and the sky.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A form of Tiw.

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  • proper noun The ancient Germanic god of war identified with Tyr of Norse mythology. Possibly the god after whom Tuesday was named.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun god of war and sky; counterpart of Norse Tyr

Etymologies

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

[Old English Tīw; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots.]

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