Definition of "odal" in English

noun

1. (law, historical) Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, especially Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen.

2. The ownership and claim of such land.

3. A rune in the Elder Futhark, ᛟ, associated with ancestral land.

adjective

1. Of or relating to odal land.

adjective

1. (poetry, music) Of or relating to an ode or odes.

noun

1. (obsolete, often capitalized) A large liana native to India and Southeastern Asia, Sarcostigma kleinii, used to produce therapeutic seed oil.