Associations to the word «Varangian»

Wiktionary

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

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats