Asgard

noun

As·​gard ˈas-ˌgärd How to pronounce Asgard (audio) ˈaz- How to pronounce Asgard (audio)
: the home of the Norse gods

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Chris Hemsworth’s thunder god enters the MCU with an adventure that kicks him out of Asgard to spend time on Earth to figure out his worthiness. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026 Director Kenneth Branagh films Asgard with swoopy-silly grandeur, Peter Jackson gone to summer stock. — Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026 These organisms were either in symbiotic association with, engulfed as food by, or parasites of other prokaryotic cells, presumably Asgard archaea—a group of archaea thought to be the closest prokaryotic relative of eukaryotes. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026 As expected, many of the other genes came from either the Asgard archaea or Alphaproteobacteria, consistent with the big-picture model of our origins. — ArsTechnica, 11 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for Asgard

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Old Norse āsgarthr

First Known Use

1704, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of Asgard was in 1704

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“Asgard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Asgard. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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