Stephen vs Shane - What's the difference?
stephen | shane |
The first Christian martyr.
* :
.
* 1852 (William Harrison Ainsworth), Tale of a Carpet-Bag , Ainsworth's Magazine, Vol. 21, page 17:
* 1952 Thomas Pyles, Words and Ways of American English , Random House, page 245:
* 2000 (Helen DeWitt), The Last Samurai , Miramax Books(2002), ISBN 0786887001, page 142:
.
* 2010 L.L.Steinmetz - W.T.Brooks, How to Sell at Margins Higher Than Your Competitor , John Wiley&Sons, ISBN 1118040619:
(rare) .
As proper nouns the difference between stephen and shane
is that stephen is the first christian martyr while shane is .stephen
English
Alternative forms
* as a given name: StevenProper noun
(en proper noun)- And Stephen , full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
- I, for my part, ask any candid reader if it was not bad enough to be called Broadfoot, without having it aggravated into Stephen Broadfoot? I feel confident I will here get a tear of sympathy from all unhappy Andrews and Peters, and Aarons and Samuels, with a smile of disdainful compassion from thrice-happy Franks and Charleys and Bills.
- It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony'', a name which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British" Christian names, like ''Stephen'' , ''Peter'', ''Michael , etc., in this country.
- I thought that ideally it should be a name which could work whether he was serious and reserved or butch, a name like Stephen which could be Steve or David which could be Dave.
Derived terms
* Stephenvilleshane
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Back in ancient Hollywood history, there was an extremely well-known movie titled Shane'''''. It was a classic western in which the late Alan Ladd played the title role. The most famous scene is the last one in the film, when '''Shane''' is riding off into the sunset and the little kid is chasing after him yelling, "'''Shane''', come back, ' Shane !"