Thor [ thawr ] SHOW IPA
/ θɔr / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
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.
a medium-range U.S. Air Force ballistic missile developed in the early 1950s and powered by a single liquid-propellant rocket engine.
a male given name.
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Origin of Thor before 1050; Old English
Thōr <Old Norse
Thōrr literally,
thunder
Words nearby Thor Thomson's gazelle ,
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thoracentesis ,
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thoracic artery ,
thoracic duct
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How to use Thor in a sentence It’s possible that Thor ’s hammer Mjölnir will simply consider Jane worthy, and she’ll be able to take up the weapon.
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.
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.
“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.”
Thor ’s simply following the pattern laid out by his own parents, who never stopped doing what they loved, either.
He married a Playboy centerfold and had two sons, the humbly-named Thor and Odin.
The move came one day after the comic book company introduced a female Thor .
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.
And instead of choosing to drop the Thor bombshell at the upcoming San Diego Comic Con, Marvel revealed the change on The View.
And when Thor Odinson is deemed unworthy, his hammer (and the Thor title, it seems) will pass on to an unnamed woman.
Thurstane is evidently Thor 's stone or altar; forefathers priests of the god of thunder.
It is not sport, nor any childish quarrel, Be ye assured, makes Thor descend from Asgaard.
Thor , the son of Odin, is one of the twelve great gods of northern mythology.
In the latter case it has been considered—erroneously, however—a variety of the Thor hammer.
The midwife, without the ointment, is deceived like Thor by Utgard-Loki: nothing is as it appears to her.
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British Dictionary definitions for Thor
noun
Norse myth the god of thunder, depicted as wielding a hammer, emblematic of the thunderbolt
Word Origin for Thor Old English Thōr, from Old Norse thōrr thunder
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Cultural definitions for Thor
notes for Thor Thursday (Thor's day) is named after Thor.
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