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BERSERKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does berserker mean? 

BERSERKER (noun)
  The noun BERSERKER has 1 sense:

1. one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane furyplay

  Familiarity information: BERSERKER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BERSERKER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

berserk; berserker

Hypernyms ("berserker" is a kind of...):

Norse; Northman; Scandinavian (an inhabitant of Scandinavia)


 Context examples 


He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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