Definition of Freya

1. Noun. (Norse mythology) goddess of love and fecundity; daughter of Njorth and sister of Frey.

Exact synonyms: Freyja
Category relationships: Norse Mythology
Generic synonyms: Norse Deity

Definition of Freya

1. n. The daughter of Njörd, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; - - in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.

Definition of Freya

1. Proper noun. (Norse mythology) The goddess of love and beauty. ¹

2. Proper noun. (Germanic female given name) of mostly British usage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Freya

1. The daughter of Njord, aud goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. Alternative forms: Frea, Fraying, and Ereyja. Origin: Icel. Freyja. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Freya

fretting
frettings
fretts
fretty
fretum
fretwork
fretworked
fretworks
freudenbergite
freudian
freudian psychoanalysis
freudian theory
freund's adjuvant
frevo
frex
freya (current term)
friabilities
friability
friable
friableness
friably
friand
friande
friandes
friands
friar
friar's-cowl
friar's cowl
friar's lantern
friar preacher

Literary usage of Freya

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Armed Neutralities of 1780 and 1800: A Collection of Official Documents by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of International Law, James Brown Scott (1918)
"An officer from one of these ships was sent on board the freya, informed himself of its destination, etc., and returned with the customary information. ..."

2. Pamphlet by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of International Law (1917)
"Preliminary Convention between Denmark and Great Britain regarding the "freya" Dispute, August 29, 18001 Their Danish and Britannic Majesties, ..."

3. Northern Antiquities: Or, A Description of the Manners, Customs, Religion by Paul Henri Mallet, Johan Göransson, Thomas Percy (1770)
"NIORD had afterwards, at his refi- dence of Noatun, two children, named FREY, and freya -, both of them beautiful and vigorous. ..."

4. Opinions of the Attorneys General, Decisions of Federal Courts, and by United States, United States Dept. of Justice, United States Dept. of State (1917)
"Preliminary Convention between Denmark and Great Britain regarding the "freya" Dispute, August 29, 18001 Their Danish and Britannic Majesties, ..."

5. Myths of Northern Lands: Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Hélène Adeline Guerber (1895)
"freya, the fair Northern goddess of beauty and love, was the sister of Frey and the ... freya, having been born in Vana-heim, was also known as Vanadis, ..."

6. Battles of the British Navy by Joseph Allen (1852)
"PM, the Danish 18-pounder 40-gun frigate freya, Captain Krabbe, in charge of a convoy, was fallen in with, in the North Sea, by the 28-gun frigate Nemesis, ..."

7. The Mythology of the Aryan Nations by George William Cox (1882)
"Nor can we doubt that freya stands to Fro in precisely the relation of Liber and Libera in the cultus of Ceres, the connexion between these deities being ..."

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