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daniel | dane |

As a proper noun daniel

is hungarian equivalent of daniel.

As a verb dane is

faint, swoon.

daniel

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A book in the Old Testament of the Bible.
  • The prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.
  • * : Daniel 6: 16 :
    • Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel', and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto ' Daniel , Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
  • * ~1594 William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice: Act IV, Scene I :
    • A Daniel' come to judgment! yea, a ' Daniel ! / O wise young judge, how do I honour thee!
  • in regular use since the Middle Ages.
  • * 1989 , A Prayer for Owen Meany , Corgi Books, ISBN 0552135399, page 55:
    • "His name is Daniel' Needham," my mother said. Whew! With what relief - down came my grandmother's hands! Needham was a fine old name, a founding fathers sort of name, a name you could trace back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony - if not exactly Gravesend itself. And '''Daniel''' was as '''Daniel''' as ' Daniel Webster, which was as good a name as a Wheelwright could wish for.
    "But he's called Dan," my mother added, bringing a slight frown to my grandmother's countenance.
  • (rare) .
  • A location in the state of Wyoming in the United States (Zip Code: 83115). (From the U.S. Census Bureau 1990)

    • Derived terms

    * Daniel come to judgement * Daniel Island * Daniels * Danielsen * Danielson * Danielsville * McDaniels

    Related terms

    * variants and pet forms : Dan, Danny * feminine given names : Dana, Daniela, Daniella, Danielle * Daniil

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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

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