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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.

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  • noun Norse

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

  • noun an inhabitant of Scandinavia

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Old English Norðman

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