Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The part of the world inhabited by people, imagined as a fortress encircled by a huge serpent and built by the gods around the middle region of the universe.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Scand. myth., the abode of the human race, formed out or the eyebrows of Ymer, one of the first giants, and joined to Asgard, or the abode of the gods, by the rainbow-bridge. See Asgard.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Teut. Myth.) The middle space or region between heaven and hell, the abode of human beings; the earth.

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  • proper noun mythology, Scandinavian The middle space or region between heaven and hell; the abode of human beings.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (Norse mythology) the abode of humans in Norse mythology

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Old Norse Midhgardhr; see medhyo- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Icelandic, from Old Norse.

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Examples

  • The term Midgard is used to refer to this middle existence of ours.

    The View From The Center Of The Universe James F. McGrath 2008

  • Some elves, when they're in Midgard, go to New Age bookstores to restore their sense of humor by reading about their own kind.

    Tech News and Science News Releases 2005

  • Thor could posit that the Asgardians aren't actually Norse Gods, but from an alien/parallel world with very advanced technology (cue the Arthur C. C.arke quote) who were taken for Gods when they last visited "Midgard", although they might get a bunch of "ripping off

    Home Theater Forum oscar_merkx 2010

  • Thor could posit that the Asgardians aren't actually Norse Gods, but from an alien/parallel world with very advanced technology (cue the Arthur C. C.arke quote) who were taken for Gods when they last visited "Midgard", although they might get a bunch of "ripping off

    Home Theater Forum oscar_merkx 2010

  • Thor could posit that the Asgardians aren't actually Norse Gods, but from an alien/parallel world with very advanced technology (cue the Arthur C. C.arke quote) who were taken for Gods when they last visited "Midgard", although they might get a bunch of "ripping off

    Home Theater Forum oscar_merkx 2010

  • Thor could posit that the Asgardians aren't actually Norse Gods, but from an alien/parallel world with very advanced technology (cue the Arthur C. C.arke quote) who were taken for Gods when they last visited "Midgard", although they might get a bunch of "ripping off

    Home Theater Forum oscar_merkx 2010

  • Thor could posit that the Asgardians aren't actually Norse Gods, but from an alien/parallel world with very advanced technology (cue the Arthur C. C.arke quote) who were taken for Gods when they last visited "Midgard", although they might get a bunch of "ripping off

    Home Theater Forum oscar_merkx 2010

  • Thor could posit that the Asgardians aren't actually Norse Gods, but from an alien/parallel world with very advanced technology (cue the Arthur C. C.arke quote) who were taken for Gods when they last visited "Midgard", although they might get a bunch of "ripping off

    Home Theater Forum oscar_merkx 2010

  • Thor could posit that the Asgardians aren't actually Norse Gods, but from an alien/parallel world with very advanced technology (cue the Arthur C. C.arke quote) who were taken for Gods when they last visited "Midgard", although they might get a bunch of "ripping off

    Home Theater Forum oscar_merkx 2010

  • Thor could posit that the Asgardians aren't actually Norse Gods, but from an alien/parallel world with very advanced technology (cue the Arthur C. C.arke quote) who were taken for Gods when they last visited "Midgard", although they might get a bunch of "ripping off

    Home Theater Forum oscar_merkx 2010

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