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Dane - What does it mean?

Definition of '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)

    Similar to 'Dane'

    Downe, Dame, Dime, Diane, Dene, Duane, Dione, Deane, Denne, Danae