Wyrd

//wɪəd// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Fate, destiny, particularly in an Anglo-Saxon or Old Norse context. countable, uncountable

    "Wyrd is too vast, too complex for us to comprehend, for we are ourselves part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force."

  2. 2
    fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An Old English deity, goddess of fate.

    "Both Wyrd (2574, 2526) and the Mighty Maker (979) measure out dooms, though God is said to control fate (1056)."

Synonyms

All synonyms
weirdbalderbragichancedestindestiny

Example

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"Wyrd is too vast, too complex for us to comprehend, for we are ourselves part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Old English wyrd. Doublet of weird.

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Old English Wyrd (“Fate”).

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