Asgard
pronunciation
How to pronounce Asgard in British English:
UK [ˈæsɡɑ:d]
How to pronounce Asgard in American English:
US [ˈæsˌɡɑrd, ˈɑz-]
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- Noun:
- (Norse mythology) the heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes
Word Origin
- Asgard (n.)
- home of the gods in Norse religion, from Old Norse ass "god," from Proto-Germanic *ansu- (cognates: Old High German ansi, Old English os, Gothic ans "god"), from PIE *ansu- "spirit" (cognates: first element in Ahura Mazda, from Avestan) + Old Norse garðr "enclosure, yard, garden" (see yard (n.1)).
Example
- 1. Asgard was doomed as soon as odin died .
- 2. We must all unite , for the sake of asgard .
- 3. The asgard have provided us with some truly amazing technology .
- 4. We must lure him back to asgard .
- 5. At that time , how pleased he dongpo , holding a glass in the moonlight drink booze , all through the night , the night of the mid-autumn festival , drunk , watched the romantic shimmer , imagine the asgard , his thoughts and feelings as wings , fly free immeasurably vast difference , reflected in the word .