Meaning of Dane | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname transferred from the nickname for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.
2. A person of Danish descent.
3. A male given name transferred from the surname, or from the ethnic term Dane (like Scott or Norman).
4. A person from Denmark.
5. A river, the River Dane, in Cheshire, England, which joins the River Weaver at Northwich.
6. 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
7. A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern Sweden.
   historical

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“As Denmark takes over the presidency of the European Union, Danes are more strongly pro-European than at any time in the past two decades – a shift in sentiment that can at least partly be attributed to US President Donald Trump.”

“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.”

“I have wrestled the hilt from the enemies' hand, avenged the evil done to the Danes; it is what is due.”

“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.”

“In “Euphoria,” Dane plays Cal Jacobs, the troubled father to Jacob Elordi’s character in the HBO drama, which is scheduled to begin production on its third season on April 14.”

“"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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