Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Norseman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inhabitant of the north—that is, of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, etc.; a Scandinavian; in a restricted sense, an inhabitant of Norway.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Norse
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inhabitant of Scandinavia
Etymologies
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Examples
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The softened form of the word Northman is Norman and the district they settled was called Normandy.
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Eric Northman from the Sookie Stackhouse series (I haven't seen True Blood, so I don't know whether the actor who plays him would change my mind).
Countdown to Branded By Fire: 8 days to go! Nalini Singh 2009
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From his impeccable sense of fashion to his highlighted hair, Eric Northman is cold, calculating, cruel and completely in control in a way that is mysteriously irresistible.
VAMPIRE NEWS FOR OCTOBER 13TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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From his impeccable sense of fashion to his highlighted hair, Eric Northman is cold, calculating, cruel and completely in control in a way that is mysteriously irresistible.
VAMPIRE NEWS FOR OCTOBER 13TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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And do you agree that Eric Northman is a welcome beam of Viking sunshine with impossibly broad shoulders?
wsj.com: TEAM BILL VS. TEAM ERIC | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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English, for the word of the Northman was the law, and wherever there seemed need for it, a grim, gray castle towered up solidly above the forest, with a great ditch, called a moat, dug around it; and behind that water and those walls of stone lived Normans, as they now were called.
The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages John Preston True
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Among the more famous archbishops of Rouen were: Archbishop Franco (911-19), who baptized the Northman chief Rollo; St. Maurille (1055-67), who reformed his clergy and fought the heresy of Berengarius; John of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The Northman was a great, hulking, wild-maned, brute-faced fellow, capped by an iron helmet and wrapped in a mantle of coarse gray, from whose folds the handle of a battle-axe looked out suggestively; but the boy was of the handsomest Saxon type.
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The terrible child of the Northman was the _Feudal System_; which was again the father of those romantic and picturesque children, the _Crusades_; and these, the creators of a European civilization, whose children we are!
A Short History of France Mary Platt Parmele 1877
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_ -- In answer to the inquiry of "Northman" (No. 16.p. 246.), P.C.S.S. has to state, that he believes that the most recent, as it is unquestionably the most copious, work on the topography of Portugal is the _Diccionario Geografico de Portugal_, published at
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