TEUTONIC DEITY

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• TEUTONIC DEITY (noun)
  The noun TEUTONIC DEITY has 1 sense:

1. (German mythology) a deity worshipped by the ancient Teutons

  Familiarity information: TEUTONIC DEITY used as a noun is very rare.

• TEUTONIC DEITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(German mythology) a deity worshipped by the ancient Teutons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Teutonic deity" is a kind of...):

deity; divinity; god; immortal (any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force)

Domain category:

mythology (myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person)

Teuton (a member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans)

Instance hyponyms:

Donar (the Teutonic god of thunder; counterpart of Norse Thor)

Hertha; Nerthus (the Teutonic goddess of fertility; later identified with Norse Njord)

Wotan (supreme Teutonic god; counterpart of Norse Odin and Anglo-Saxon Woden)