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Vi⋅king
[vahy-king] 
–noun (sometimes lowercase
)
) | 1. | any of the Scandinavian pirates who plundered the coasts of Europe from the 8th to 10th centuries. |
| 2. | a sea-roving bandit; pirate. |
| 3. | a Scandinavian. |
| 4. | U.S. Aerospace. one of a series of space probes that obtained scientific information about Mars. |
Origin:
1800–10; < Scand; cf. ON vīkingr; cf. OE wīcing pirate; etym. disputed
1800–10; < Scand; cf. ON vīkingr; cf. OE wīcing pirate; etym. disputed
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| Vi·king (vī'kĭng) n.
[Old Norse vīkingr, perhaps from vīk, creek, inlet.] |
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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.
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Viking
Scandinavian pirate, 1807, vikingr; modern spelling attested from 1840. The word is a historical revival; it was not used in M.E., but it was revived from O.N. vikingr, which usually is explained as prop. "one who came from the fjords," from vik "creek, inlet" (cf. O.E. wic, M.H.G. wich "bay," and second element in Reykjavik). But O.E. wicing and O.Fris. wizing are almost 300 years older, and probably derive from wic "village, camp" (temporary camps were a feature of the Viking raids), related to L. vicus "village, habitation" (see villa). The connection between the O.N. and O.E. words is still much debated. The period of Viking activity was roughly 8c. to 11c. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the raiding armies generally were referred to as þa Deniscan "the Danes," while those who settled in England were identified by their place of settlement.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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