Norman2

 
Pronunciation: /ˈnɔːmən/

noun

  • 1a 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 born circa 1080, he was presumably a Norman from Calvados
  • a native or inhabitant of modern Normandy.
  • 2 [mass noun] the form of French spoken by the Normans.

adjective

  • 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 Willy rambled on about Norman archways and Perpendicular naves
  • relating to modern Normandy: Norman ore was to have been smelted there with Ruhr coal

Derivatives

Normanize

(also Normanise) verb

Origin:

Middle English: from Old French Normans, plural of Normant, from Old Norse Northmathr 'Northman'