a member of a people of mixed Frankish and Scandinavian stock who settled in Normandy in the tenth cent
any of the Norman-French conquerors of England in 1066, or their descendants
the northern form of Old French spoken by the medieval Normans
a style of architecture characterized, esp in its English form, by semicircular arches and heavy pillars: compare Romanesque1
Norman adj
[Middle English via Old French Normant from Old Norse Northmann-, Northmathr Norseman, from northr north + mann-, mathr man]