one of the Scandinavian seagoing peoples that raided the northwestern European coast in the 8th-10th centuries
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(n.)
One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutOne belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
viking
\vi"king\ (?), n. [icel. vīkingr, fr. vīk a bay, inlet.] one belonging to the pirate crews from among the northmen, who plundered the coasts of europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries. of grim vikings, and the rapture of the sea fight, and the capture, and the life of slavery.
note: vikings differs in meaning from sea king, with which frequently confounded. "the sea king was a man connected with a royal race, either of the small kings of the country, or of the haarfager family, and who, by right, received the title of king as soon he took the command of men, although only of a single ship's crew, and without having any land or kingdom vikings were merely pirates, alternately peasants and pirates, deriving the name of viking from the vicks, wicks, or inlets, on the coast in which they harbored with their long ships or rowing galleys." --laing.
viking
n : any of the scandinavian people who raided the coasts of europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries [syn: viking]
Noun
1. any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries
(hypernym) Scandinavian, Norse, Northman
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Viking Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
The term Viking (from Old Norse ) is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.
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