English Explanatory Dictionary

Dane

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person of Danish descent.
  2. A person from Denmark.
  3. 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.
  4. A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern Sweden.
name
  1. A surname transferred from the nickname for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname, or from the ethnic term Dane (like Scott or Norman).
  3. A river, the River Dane, in Cheshire, England, which joins the River Weaver at Northwich.

Pronunciation

/deɪn/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Dane.wav

Word forms

Dane Danes

Etymology

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

Synonyms

Danish Danishman Denmarkian

Derived words

Dane County Great Dane Red Dane

Translations

Afrikaans: Deen Arabic: دَانِمَارْكِيّ Arabic: دَانِمَرْكِيَّة Armenian: դանիացի Asturian: danés Asturian: danesa Azerbaijani: danimarkalı Basque: daniar Belarusian: датча́нін Belarusian: датча́нка Bengali: দিনেমার Bulgarian: датча́нин Bulgarian: датча́нка Catalan: danès Catalan: danesa Catalan: danés Chechen: датхо Cherokee: ᎠᏕᏂ Chinese Mandarin: 丹麥人 /丹麦人 Czech: Dán Czech: Dánka Danish: dansker Dutch: Deen Dutch: Deense Esperanto: dano Esperanto: daniano Estonian: taanlane Estonian: taanlanna Farefare: daŋa Faroese: dani Faroese: danskari Finnish: tanskalainen French: Danois French: Danoise Galician: dinamarqués Galician: dinamarquesa Georgian: დანიელი German: Däne German: Dänin Greek: Δανός Greek: Δανή Greenlandic: danskeq Hawaiian: Kenemaka Hindi: डैनिश Hindi: डेनिश Hindi: डेन Hungarian: dán Icelandic: Dani Ido: Dano Ido: Danulo Ido: Danino Irish: Danar Irish: Danmhargach Italian: danese Japanese: デンマーク人 Kazakh: даттық Khmer: ដាណឺ Korean: 덴마크 사람 Latvian: dānis Latvian: dāniete Lithuanian: danas Lithuanian: danė
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