Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of any of the peoples of medieval Scandinavia.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A native of ancient Scandinavia; a Northman.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun One of the ancient Scandinavians; a Northman.

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  • proper noun historical a mediaeval1 Scandinavian.
  • proper noun A Scandinavian1 or a person of Scandinavian ancestry.
  • proper noun historical a Viking.
  • proper noun dated a Norwegian.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a native or inhabitant of Norway

Etymologies

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Norse +‎ -man

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Examples

  • Director Mike Nispel, who resurrected a D.O.A. “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” in 2003, sets a dark mood for what begins as a fish-out-of-water scenario (usually reserved for comedy, mind you). “500 years before Columbus, ” a young Norseman is abandoned in the snows of North America and taken in by natives.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2007

  • While in the SEALs, he had earned the code name Norseman, not for his rugged good looks, which were more Germanic than Norse, or because he fought like a fearsome Viking warrior, but rather because of the long string of Scandinavian flight attendants he had dated.

    Blowback Brad Thor 2005

  • While in the SEALs, he had earned the code name Norseman, not for his rugged good looks, which were more Germanic than Norse, or because he fought like a fearsome Viking warrior, but rather because of the long string of Scandinavian flight attendants he had dated.

    Blowback Brad Thor 2005

  • There was no one near me, or I think that I should have made some desperate effort to call a Norseman to my help.

    A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex 1884

  • THE Democratic Review not long since contained a singularly wild and spirited poem, entitled the Norseman's Ride, in which the writer appears to have very happily blended the boldness and sublimity of the heathen saga with the grace and artistic skill of the literature of civilization.

    The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • THE Democratic Review not long since contained a singularly wild and spirited poem, entitled the Norseman's Ride, in which the writer appears to have very happily blended the boldness and sublimity of the heathen saga with the grace and artistic skill of the literature of civilization.

    Criticism, Part 4, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • THE Democratic Review not long since contained a singularly wild and spirited poem, entitled the Norseman's Ride, in which the writer appears to have very happily blended the boldness and sublimity of the heathen saga with the grace and artistic skill of the literature of civilization.

    The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • Claud Halcro, the poet, is fond of rhyming the only kind of Norseman known to his time, and in his "Song of Harold Harfager" we hear the echoes of Gray's odes.

    The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature Conrad Hjalmar Nordby 1883

  • Semantics, my dear chap. Norman might mean "Norseman", but William and his peeps spoke French and worshiped God, not Thor.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • Semantics, my dear chap. Norman might mean "Norseman", but William and his peeps spoke French and worshiped God, not Thor.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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