Dane

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname transferred from the nickname for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.

    "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."

  2. 2
    A male given name transferred from the surname, or from the ethnic term Dane (like Scott or Norman).

    ""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."

  3. 3
    A river, the River Dane, in Cheshire, England, which joins the River Weaver at Northwich.
Noun
  1. 1
    A person of Danish descent.

    "Fresleven - that was the fellow’s name, a Dane - thought himself wronged somehow in the bargain, so he went ashore and started to hammer the chief of the village with a stick."

  2. 2
    a native or inhabitant of Denmark wordnet
  3. 3
    A person from Denmark.

    "But the Danes remained resolute in defence - largely thanks to a spirited display by captain Daniel Agger - and they went ahead with their first meaningful attack."

  4. 4
    In Anglo-Saxon England, any of the seafaring raiders and settlers who attacked and colonized parts of England from the late 8th century onward; a Viking. historical
  5. 5
    A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern Sweden. historical

    "Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English Dane, from Old Norse danir or Old English Dene. Both forms ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *daniz.

Etymology 2

From Middle English Dane, from Old Norse danir or Old English Dene. Both forms ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *daniz.

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