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say it: val-KEE-ree-uh
valkyrie is a noun meaning "(Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla". It is pronounced /ˌvælˈkiˌɹiə/ — val-KEE-ree-uh. It carries one recorded sense.
(Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla
Norse mythology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for valkyrie come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.