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wyrds

wyrds is the plural of wyrd.

Meaning of wyrd

Noun

wyrd (countable and uncountable, plural wyrds)

  1. Fate, destiny, particularly in an Anglo-Saxon or Old Norse context.
    • Wyrd is too vast, too complex for us to comprehend, for we are ourselves part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force.1983, Brian Bates, The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer, Century

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Questions about wyrds

What is wyrds the plural of?
Wyrds is the plural of wyrd.

Words near wyrds in the dictionary

  1. wypes
  2. wypipo
  3. Wyrallah
  4. wyrd
  5. wyrd folk
  6. wyrds
  7. wyre
  8. Wyre Forest
  9. Wyre Piddle
  10. wyres
  11. Wyrick

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