prop. n. [ Icel. &unr_;; prob.akin to E. wood, a. See Wednesday. ] (Northern Mythol.) The supreme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as Woden, of the German tribes. [ 1913 Webster ]
There in the Temple, carved in wood,
The image of great Odin stood. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to Odin. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Worship of Odin; broadly, the Teutonic heathenism. --
Odinism was valor; Christianism was humility, a nobler kind of valor. Carlyle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]