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Norse vs Dane - What's the difference?

norse | dane |

As an adjective norse

is of, or relating to the people, language and culture of scandinavia.

As a proper noun norse

is a collective term for scandinavian (historically norwegian) people.

As a verb dane is

faint, swoon.

norse

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to the people, language and culture of Scandinavia.
  • Of, or relating to the North Germanic group of languages.

    • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A collective term for Scandinavian (historically Norwegian) people.
  • Speakers of any of the North Germanic languages.
  • The ancient language spoken by Vikings, from which modern Scandinavian languages are derived. Icelandic is the most closely related modern version, having changed little due to Iceland's linguistic isolation.

    • Anagrams

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    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.

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