Definitions for vikings

vikings Vi·king

Spelling: [vahy-king]
IPA: /ˈvaɪ kɪŋ/

Vikings is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in vikings (giiknsv).

Definitions for vikings

noun

  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 of vikings

1800-10; Scandinavian; compare Old Norse vīkingr; compare Old English wīcing pirate; etymology disputed

Examples for vikings

Part of that lies in the paucity of documentation of what the vikings actually did during their raids.

Everybody seemed to be trying to grab what he could and let the vikings be blamed for it.

Those riches did not disappear, as the vikings were well integrated in the European trade network.

Every summer King Harald had out his ships and men and hunted these vikings.

Here the vikings hid when they saw King Harald's ships coming.

Not only are the vikings completely misunderstood, he argues, but they may have saved Europe.

One of the reasons the vikings are viewed so negatively is that their violence could seem wanton or irrational.

More importantly, contends Winroth, the vikings were acting completely rationally with their raids.

So it went until all the lands round about were covered with vikings.

They had another name, vikings, which was their word for sea-rovers.

Word Value for vikings
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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