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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Old Norse v?kingr Date: 1807 1. a. one of the pirate Norsemen plundering the coasts of Europe in the 8th to 10th centuries b. not capitalized sea rover 2. Scandinavian

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. any of the Scandinavian seafaring pirates and traders who raided and settled in parts of NW Europe in the 8th-11th c. --adj. of or relating to the Vikings or their time. Etymology: ON víkingr, perh. f. OE wicing f. wic camp

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Viking Vi"king, n. [Icel. v[=i]kingr, fr. v[=i]k 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. --Longfellow. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(Vikings) The Vikings were men who sailed from Scandinavia and attacked villages in most parts of north-western Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Blackbeard, Captain Hook, Captain Kidd, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Henry Morgan, Jean Lafitte, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, air pirate, airplane hijacker, bluejacket, buccaneer, corsair, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, limey, lobsterman, mariner, matelot, navigator, picaroon, pirate, privateer, rover, sailor, salt, sea dog, sea king, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, skyjacker, tar, water dog, whaler, windjammer, windsailor