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dane | thane |

As a verb dane

is faint, swoon.

As a noun thane is

cranberry shrub.

dane

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person from Denmark or of Danish descent.
  • (historical) A member of the Danes, a .

    • Synonyms

    * (person from Denmark) Danish

    Derived terms

    * Great Dane

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.
  • * 1913 Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean , BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, ISBN 0554347148, page 13
    • 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.
  • 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
    • "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)

    thane

    English

    (Thegn)

    Alternative forms

    * thegn

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron." thane]", entry in 1852', ''Putnam's Home Cyclopedia: Hand-Book of Literature and the Fine Arts'', p594 — The '''thanes''' in England were formerly persons of some dignity; there were two orders, the king's '''thanes''', who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary '''thanes , who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits.After the [Norman Conquest, this title was disused, and ''baron took its place.
  • * 1845 , (translator), A History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings , 2004, page 317,
    • The Anglo-Saxon thanes were in all respects the predecessors of the Norman barons.
    The title of thane seems to have supplanted that of gesith, which appears only in the earner Anglo-Saxon laws, a denomination that may originally have designated the attendants or companions of the king, and whose wergild being triple that of the simple freeman, were, therefore, denominated not only gesithcund men, but six-hynde men.
  • * 1910 , Robert A. Thompson, The People's History of England , Walter Scott Publishing, New York,
    • The little island of Iona became the refuge of the sons and some thanes of Athelfrith, banished by Edwin.
  • * 2000 , '', ''Anglo-Saxon Spirituality: Selected Writings , page 144,
    • Although some serfs escape from their lord and turn away from Christendom to the Vikings and after this it happens that the clash of swords becomes common to thane' and serf, if the serf utterly kills the ' thane , he lies unpaid by all of the serf's kin.

    See also

    * baron * gesith

    Anagrams

    * *

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