Tor

• IPA^(key): /tɔɹ/

Tor

1. Abbreviation of Toronto.
2. (computing) Abbreviation of The Onion Routing, an implementation of second-generation onion routing.

• Tor., TOR

• ORT, OTR, RTO, TRO, ort, rot

Tor

1. (Norse mythology) Thor

• male given names: Teijo, Torsti, Tuukka, Tuure
• female given names: Tuovi

• Thor (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /toːɐ̯/
• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯
• Homophone: Thor

From Old High German tor. Compare Tür, English door and Norwegian dør.

Tor n (genitive Tors or Tores, plural Tore)

1. gate, archway (passageway covered by an arch, particularly one made of masonry)
2. gate, door (large doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall)

   Dies ist ein Garagentor, nur ein Ochse parkt davor.

   This is a garage door, only an ox parks in front of it.

3. (figuratively) gateway (point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another)
4. (sports) goal, net (area into which the players attempt to put a ball)

• Scheunentor
• Sternentor
• torarm

From Middle High German tor.

Tor m (genitive Toren, plural Toren, feminine Törin)

1. (dated or literary) fool (person with poor judgment or little intelligence)
   • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Prometheus"

     Ihr nähret kümmerlich / Von Opfersteuern / Und Gebetshauch / Eure Majestät, / Und darbtet, wären / Nicht Kinder und Bettler / Hoffnungsvolle Thoren.

     Your majesty / Is barely nourished / By sacrificial offerings / And prayerful exhalations, / And should starve / Were children and beggars not / Fools full of Hope.

   • Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" (german translation by Theodor Etzel)

     Sprach der Rabe: »Nie du Tor.«

     Said the Raven: "Never, you fool."

   Synonym: Narr

• Torheit
• töricht

• (given name) Thor, Tord

From Old Norse Þórr. The given name is also a spelling variant of Tord, from Þórðr.

Tor

1. (Norse mythology) Thor.
2. A male given name.

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 22 416 males with the given name Tor (compared to 7 934 named Thor) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

Tor m

1. (Norse mythology) Thor (thunder god)

From Old Norse Þórr.

Tor c (genitive Tors)

1. (Norse mythology) Thor, god of thunder.
2. A male given name, short for names beginning with the Old Norse element Tor-.

Tor

1. A male given name