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Dank vs Dana - What's the difference?

dank | dana |

As a noun dank

is thanks.

As a verb dana is

to damn.

dank

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Moisture; humidity; water.
  • A small silver coin formerly used in Persia.

    • Adjective

    (er)
  • dark, damp and humid.
    • The dank cave was chilly and spooky.
  • * Milton
    • Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire.
  • * Trench
    • Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground.
  • (figuratively) highly potent
    • That was very dank marijuana.

    Derived terms

    * dankly * dankness

    Anagrams

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    dana

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • of uncertain origin.
  • (chiefly, US) derived from the surname.
  • * 1971 J. Anthony Lukas, Don't Shoot — We Are Your Children , Random House, ISBN 0394462874, page 419:
    • Johnie had become a "problem" for the advosers and "baby deans" in University Hall: men with marvelously Puritan names like Dana Cotton and Christopher Wadsworth called him in and asked what the trouble was.
  • usually interpreted as a form of Daniel, taken to use in the twentieth century; possibly borrowed from eastern Europe.
  • A village in Illinois
  • A town in Indiana
  • A city/town in Iowa

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