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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 fury
Familiarity information: BERSERKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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