Thor

[ thawr ]

noun

1. Scandinavian Mythology. the god of thunder, rain, and farming, represented as riding a chariot drawn by goats and wielding the hammer Mjolnir: the defender of the Aesir, destined to kill and be killed by the Midgard Serpent.
2. a medium-range U.S. Air Force ballistic missile developed in the early 1950s and powered by a single liquid-propellant rocket engine.
3. a male given name.

Thor

/ θɔː /

noun

1. Norse myth the god of thunder, depicted as wielding a hammer, emblematic of the thunderbolt

Thor

1. The god of thunder in Norse mythology . He wielded a hammer.

Notes

Thursday (Thor's day) is named after Thor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Thor¹

before 1050; Old English Thōr < Old Norse Thōrr literally, thunder

Word History and Origins

Origin of Thor¹

Old English Thōr, from Old Norse thōrr thunder

Example Sentences

It’s possible that Thor’s hammer Mjölnir will simply consider Jane worthy, and she’ll be able to take up the weapon.

From Time

He helps Thor save the people of Asgard from their evil sister Hela and plans to help Thor start a new colony for their people.

From Time

Like his brother Thor, he is a god, though he finds out in the Thor movies that he is not the genetic son of Oden, the King of Asgard, as Thor is.

From Time

“I don’t know if I’m doing right,” Thor says, “or if I’ll ever know, but the most important thing is that we’re doing it together.”

From Outside Online

Thor’s simply following the pattern laid out by his own parents, who never stopped doing what they loved, either.

From Outside Online

He married a Playboy centerfold and had two sons, the humbly-named Thor and Odin.

From The Daily Beast

The move came one day after the comic book company introduced a female Thor.

From The Daily Beast

Don Payne, whose work on The Simpsons started in Season 14, went on to write the scripts for both Thor and Thor: The Dark World.

From The Daily Beast

And instead of choosing to drop the Thor bombshell at the upcoming San Diego Comic Con, Marvel revealed the change on The View.

From The Daily Beast

And when Thor Odinson is deemed unworthy, his hammer (and the Thor title, it seems) will pass on to an unnamed woman.

From The Daily Beast

Thurstane is evidently Thor's stone or altar; forefathers priests of the god of thunder.

From Project Gutenberg

It is not sport, nor any childish quarrel, Be ye assured, makes Thor descend from Asgaard.

From Project Gutenberg

Thor, the son of Odin, is one of the twelve great gods of northern mythology.

From Project Gutenberg

In the latter case it has been considered—erroneously, however—a variety of the Thor hammer.

From Project Gutenberg

The midwife, without the ointment, is deceived like Thor by Utgard-Loki: nothing is as it appears to her.

From Project Gutenberg