Varangian
- Proper noun. (historical) A member of the ethnically Scandinavian people around the borders of Constantinople in the ninth and tenth centuries.
- Proper noun. (historical) The imperial body guard at Constantinople from 955.
- Proper noun. (geology) A period of intense glaciation during the late Proterozoic eon.
- Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Varangians.
- Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Varanger Peninsula in Norway.
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