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   Norman

   /ˈnɔːmən/

   noun

   • 1. a member of a people of mixed Frankish and Scandinavian origin who settled in Normandy from about ad 912 and became a dominant military power in western Europe and the Mediterranean in the 11th century.
   • ▪ any of the Normans who conquered England in 1066, or their descendants: "the castle goes right back to the Normans"
   • ▪ a native or inhabitant of modern Normandy.
   • 2. the form of French spoken by the Normans.

   adjective

   • 1. relating to the Normans: "the Norman invasion"
   • ▪ denoting or relating to the style of Romanesque architecture used in Britain under the Normans: "the 11th-century Norman crypt of Winchester Cathedral"
   • ▪ relating to modern Normandy: "Norman ore was to have been smelted there with Ruhr coal"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French Normans, plural of Normant, from Old Norse Northmathr ‘Northman’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. Normanesque adjective
   • 2. Normanism noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

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