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Wiking

Wiking is the alternative form of Viking.

Meaning of Viking

Noun

Viking (plural Vikings)

  1. (historical) Scandinavian/Northern European seafarers, most familiarly raiders and pirates during the Viking age.
    • Henchmen had placed, as was their habit, each warrior's gear and trappings above his pile of skins. Thus you could see the burnished helmet of each warrior set in readiness above his head. It was the Viking habit.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 33
  2. (broadly) A stock character common in the fantasy genre, namely a barbarian, generally equipped with an axe or sword and a helmet adorned with horns.
  3. (colloquial) A Norseman (medieval Scandinavian).
  4. (colloquial, humorous, mildly, offensive) An ethnic Swede, Norwegian, Dane, Icelander or Faroe Islander.
  5. A player on the Minnesota Vikings NFL team.
  6. (Japan) buffet; smorgasbord

See all 9 meanings of viking

Proper noun

Wiking

  1. (historical) The 5th SS division in Nazi Germany.

Forms of Wiking

pluralWikings

Questions about Wiking

What does Wiking mean?
Wiking means the 5th SS division in Nazi Germany.
What is Wiking the alternative form of?
Wiking is the alternative form of Viking.
What part of speech is Wiking?
Wiking is a proper noun.

Words near Wiking in the dictionary

  1. Wikimedians
  2. Wikimedians in Residence
  3. wikiness
  4. Wikinewsie
  5. Wikinewsies
  6. Wiking
  7. Wikings
  8. wikinomics
  9. Wikipaedia
  10. wikipage
  11. wikipages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wiking (page history and authors); Viking (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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