(n.) The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, the Janssen portrait had, it was shown during conservation work in 1988, been painted over to make the sitter look balder, and more "Shakespearean".
(2) The Samaritans urges us to avoid some terms, such as the old-fashioned "commit suicide", as if it were a deliberate, thought-out act, or "successful suicide", as if this were a positive event, and instead use the balder "death by suicide" or "take one's own life".
(3) Then, in 2007, he returned with his old friend Paul Whitehouse in a sketch show with new characters – balder, greyer and thinner than we remembered him.
(4) The balder facts of the story were that the parliaments in Edinburgh and London had paid Anthony d'Offay £26m, the cost price of work he had mostly acquired in the last five years, and waived his £14m tax bill.
Odin
Definition:
(n.) The supreme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as Woden, of the German tribes.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(2) A thyroid scanning with 123 odine or 99 Tech, has shown the absence of thyroid in 6 cases, an ectopic gland in 7 cases and a thyroid in a normal position in one case.
(3) Thor Marvel has already made the change in the comic books, revealing earlier this year that Thor’s long-term love interest Jane Foster has become the new female Thor after picking up the hammer Mjolnir and finding herself more worthy of it than the son of Odin himself.
(4) In November, the largest bank in Norway, DNB, announced that it had sold its assets in DAPL , while Odin Fund Management, a major Norwegian fund manager, sold $23.8m worth of shares invested in the companies behind the pipeline.
(5) Another tattoo of the Odin or Celtic cross represents one of the most popular symbols among neo-Nazis, seen as the international symbol for "white pride".
(6) In a separate entry, written in March 2016, Hofer wrote to Wiesinger: “Dear Odin!
(7) Victories thus far include the decisions by a Norwegian bank, DNB , and the Norwegian mutual fund Odin Fund Management to sell their shares in companies connected to the pipeline last November.
(8) Hofer has said his favourite artist is the painter and sculptor Odin Wiesinger, whose works feature young men in fraternity uniforms and maps of the Greater German Reich.
(9) If Odin, who now describes himself as a writer of "online fiction", could do it, she suggested painfully, there was no reason Amina Araf could not be another fake.
(10) That blog was written by a man, Odin Soli, who now calls himself a writer of "online fiction".
(11) In regenerating liver the amount of cellCAM 105 decreases to a minimum 2-3 days post-hepatectomy, then increases and reaches the normal concentration 10-15 days post-hepatectomy [Odin and Obrink (1986) Exp.
(12) It's a broken down building on the edge of a giant crater from one of the Odin strikes [the massively destructive super-weapon that forms the basis of the single-player campaign] – the paths all flow in and out, they're like spaghetti going over and under each other."
(13) Is he saying we must respect any old cult: followers of Black Sabbath, Odin, Scientology, astrology?
(14) "Well … to make a long story short Plain Layne turned out to be this middle-aged guy named Odin Soli who had also won blog awards years before as Acanit, a young lesbian Muslim girl with a Jewish girlfriend."