Dane - What does it mean?
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for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.
* 1913 Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean , BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, ISBN 0554347148, page 13
transferred from the surname, or from the ethnic term Dane (like Scott or Norman).
* 1977 , The Thorn Birds , Gramercy Books 1998, ISBN 0517201658, pages 432-433
dane
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* (person from Denmark) DanishDerived terms
* Great DaneProper noun
(en proper noun)- Often he wrote good ones on casual slips and fancied them his; names like Trevellyan or Montressor or Delancey, with musical prefixes; or a good, short, beautiful, but dignified name like "Gordon Dane ". He liked that one. It suggested something.
- "I'm going to call him Dane ."
- "What a queer name! Why? Is it an O'Neill family name? I thought you were finished with the O'Neills."
- "It's got nothing to do with Luke. This is his name, no one else's. - - - I called Justine Justine simply because I liked the name, and I'm calling Dane Dane for the same reason."
- "Well, it does have a nice ring to it," Fee admitted.