(n.) The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his last couple of months as PM he was coming down here often Freya Pharo “It shouldn’t lose any of its magic,” Hackett said, addressing concerns that the pub’s atmosphere would change with its owners.
(2) Rescuing George Osborne's cat, Freya, has put me at the centre of a media storm in the past 24 hours.
(3) Its abolition is a distressing defeat | Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff Read more ‘ The message it sends is that you’re not welcome, and only the rich can go’ Freya Jeffries, 20, going into her third year studying English at Southampton University, has the full grant.
(4) But I was out with an old person and it was out of order.” His partner Tracey Wicks and their daughter Freya, 14, were due to visit him in hospital.
(5) My partner James was in the other room and he came in straight afterwards, and then our other children, Freya, who's seven, and four-year-old Lilly, came in to meet their new brother.
(6) It's been amazing how much interest has been generated by a simple act of kindness to the chancellor's cat, but Freya is like the people we work with – they all deserve some help in getting home.
(7) It is good to see the organisations investigating and I hope they can quickly get to the bottom of it.” Joining Farah in calling for transparency are Jo Pavey, Lisa Dobriskey, Jenny Meadows, Freya Murray, Hatti Archer, Emma Jackson and Andy Baddeley.
(8) The interns Freya Edmondson, second-year fashion design student at Kingston University I've dressed models backstage at London Fashion Week quite a few times and it's pretty much all students.
(9) Freya Horne, counsel for the San Francisco sheriff’s department, said on Friday that federal detention requests were not sufficient to hold someone.
(10) Freya Parker, part of the acclaimed sketch troupe Lazy Susan, said that Williams's drama had been as inspiring to her as his comedy.
(11) Freya settled straight away on my pillow and purred peacefully until I had to leave her to head out on an early morning outreach shift helping London's homeless.
(12) Tim Lott and Josephine Cox opted for Pip and Oliver respectively; Freya North chose Uriah Heep, describing him as a "loathsome character who seeps from the pages like a noxious gas"; Daisy Goodwin went for "the anti-heroine of Bleak House", Lady Dedlock, while Adele Parks favoured the "morally ambiguous" Nancy from Oliver Twist.
(13) The trainer, who details his own near-fatal encounter with an aggressive whale called Freya in the opening pages of his book, weighed everything up and decided, in August 2012, that it was time to quit.
(14) The lady who answered the phone expressed surprise at hearing that Freya had made it to Vauxhall from Downing Street, over a mile away.
(15) It didn't seem important at the time but we took a photo of Freya with a note calling on the chancellor not to cut funding to homelessness services.
(16) I was talking about it with the fish men today, we don’t bat an eyelid, because in the same way we go ‘let’s go and have a Chinese’, I’m sure the Chinese go ‘let’s go out and have an English’.” Freya Pharo, who has been bar manager at the Plough for the past eight months, was also unconcerned about potential changes.
Frigga
Definition:
(n.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.