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Webster 1913 Edition
Varangian
Va-ran′gi-an
,Noun.
One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople.
Definition 2024
Varangian
Varangian
English
Noun
Varangian (plural Varangians)
- (historical) A member of the ethnically Scandinavian people around the borders of Constantinople in the ninth and tenth centuries.
- (historical) A member of the imperial body guard at Constantinople from 955.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 506:
- The Byzantines continued to recruit elite warriors from the north, not merely from Rus’ but directly from far-off Scandinavia; from the end of the tenth century, they referred to them as ‘Varangians’.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 506:
Synonyms
- Varyag
Translations
member of the imperial body guard at Constantinople from 955
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Adjective
Varangian (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the Varangians.
- Of or pertaining to the Varanger Peninsula in Norway.
- (geology) Pertaining to a period of intense glaciation during the late Proterozoic eon.
References
- Varangian in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913