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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Frey, Freyrnoun

    (Norse mythology) god of earth's fertility and peace and prosperity; son of Njorth and brother of Freya; originally of the Vanir; later with the Aesir

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  1. frey

    Freyr (Old Norse: 'Lord'), sometimes anglicized as Frey, is a widely attested god in Norse mythology, associated with kingship, fertility, peace, and weather. Freyr, sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr, was especially associated with Sweden and seen as an ancestor of the Swedish royal house. According to Adam of Bremen, Freyr was associated with peace and pleasure, and was represented with a phallic statue in the Temple at Uppsala. According to Snorri Sturluson, Freyr was "the most renowned of the æsir", and was venerated for good harvest and peace. In the mythological stories in the Icelandic books the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, Freyr is presented as one of the Vanir, the son of the god Njörðr and his sister-wife, as well as the twin brother of the goddess Freyja. The gods gave him Álfheimr, the realm of the Elves, as a teething present. He rides the shining dwarf-made boar Gullinbursti and possesses the ship Skíðblaðnir which always has a favorable breeze and can be folded together and carried in a pouch when it is not being used. Freyr is also known to have been associated with the horse cult. He also kept sacred horses in his sanctuary at Trondheim in Norway. He has the servants Skírnir, Byggvir and Beyla. The most extensive surviving Freyr myth relates Freyr's falling in love with the female jötunn Gerðr. Eventually, she becomes his wife but first Freyr has to give away his sword which fights on its own "if wise be he who wields it." Although deprived of this weapon, Freyr defeats the jötunn Beli with an antler. However, lacking his sword, Freyr will be killed by the fire jötunn Surtr during the events of Ragnarök. Like other Germanic deities, veneration of Freyr is revived during the modern period through the Heathenry movement.

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  1. frey

    Frey is a name that originated from Norse mythology, referring to the god of fertility, sunshine, and rain. It is also used as a surname in many Western societies. As a term, it doesn't have a general definition as it specifically refers to a character in mythology or used as a family name.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FREY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Frey is ranked #1065 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Frey surname appeared 32,904 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 11 would have the surname Frey.

    95.1% or 31,305 total occurrences were White.
    1.8% or 622 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.1% or 392 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.9% or 306 total occurrences were Black.
    0.6% or 197 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.2% or 82 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of frey in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of frey in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of frey in a Sentence

  1. Don Henley:

    We are all in a state of shock, disbelief and profound sorrow, i'm not sure I believe in fate, but I know that crossing paths with Glenn Lewis Frey in 1970 changed my life forever, and it eventually had an impact on the lives of millions of other people all over the planet.

  2. Sheila Nezhad:

    And I'm not White, so when Mayor Frey talks about only White people want to defund or whatever... I think that Mayor Frey is perhaps shaping the narrative to benefit Mayor Frey political goals.

  3. Ken Johnson:

    It's almost like a perfect storm if William Frey will, births are way down, Covid pushes deaths way up, and then immigration is quite slow, too, so it is no wonder that the population growth rate is so low when William Frey bring all those factors together at the same time.

  4. Don Felder:

    When the band first formed, everybody had been sidemen. So they said, 'In this band there are no sidemen,' and when I joined the band, it was still the same. There were some power struggles emerging, because Henley and Frey had sung all the hits at that point.

  5. Dahlia Grizzle:

    The cats were like Ellen Frey-Wouters babies.

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