Dane vs Dame - What's the difference?
dane | dame |
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
(British) The .
(dated, informal, slightly, derogatory, US) A woman.
* 1949 , (Oscar Hammerstein II), "(There is Nothing Like a Dame)",
A traditional character in British pantomime, a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
(archaic) , woman.
As verbs the difference between dane and dame
is that dane is faint, swoon while dame is .dane
English
Synonyms
* (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.
Anagrams
* (l) * (l), (l) * (l)dame
English
Noun
(en noun)- Dame Edith Sitwell
- There ain't nothin' like a dame'! / Nothin' in the world! / There is nothin' you can name / That is anythin' like a ' dame !