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Wotan

[ US /ˈwoʊtən/ ]
NOUN
  1. supreme Teutonic god; counterpart of Norse Odin and Anglo-Saxon Woden

How To Use Wotan In A Sentence

  • In the second scene we see Wotan, giving directions to the Walkyrie The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
  • Before Alberich, however, has caught the words -- his deafness perhaps it is which saves his life -- Loge has called Wotan back to his reason. The Wagnerian Romances
  • In "Siegfried," the heroic knight of the title rescued Brünnhilde, a sleeping Valkyrie magically imprisoned in a ring of fire by her father Wotan. Falling Into Wagner's Burning Ring of Fire
  • The first, or upper section of this line -- from Drocourt to Queant -- was called the Wotan line. The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders Or, the Fighting Canadians of Vimy Ridge
  • While I was singing 'Wotan's Abschied' to my friends I noticed the same expression on Cosima's face as I had seen on it, to my astonishment, in Zurich on a similar occasion, only the ecstasy of it was transfigured into something higher. My Life — Volume 2
  • Instead of greeting Daddy Wotan with a big hug, the impetuous Brünnhilde slid haplessly down the "mountain," landing stage front, flat on her derrière good bone-density test! Lee Rosenbaum: Fright Night at the Opera: Met's "Die Walküre" Enthralls, Despite Mishaps
  • He is early old, this "child of hate," as Wotan long ago called him, sere and pallid, totally unglad and hating the glad. The Wagnerian Romances
  • It is then most especially that the calm notes of Wotan fall healingly upon the sense: They have heard tales of novel events in Nibelheim, of mighty wonders worked there by Alberich, and are come from curiosity to witness these. The Wagnerian Romances
  • It is quite remarkable that he manages to heave his dark bass voice up to the upper reaches of Wotan's part.
  • By anger I mean human anger -- the god's wrath of a Wotan is a different matter. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas
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