Usually means: Scandinavian warriors serving Byzantine emperors.
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  1. Varangian, Varangian: Merriam-Webster
  2. Varangian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Varangian: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Varangian: Wordnik
  5. Varangian: Wiktionary
  6. Varangian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Varangian: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Varangian, varangian: Dictionary.com
  9. Varangian: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Varangian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Varangian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. varangian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Varangian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. varangian: FreeDictionary.org
  15. Varangian: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Varangian: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (Varangian)

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

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