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Dane

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "dane"

English

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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Dane (plural Danes)

  1. A person of Danish descent.
  2. A person from Denmark.
    • 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport‎[1], archived from the original on 9 September 2025:
      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.
    • 2025 July 5, Sebastian Shukla, “Denmark has long been Euroskeptic. Donald Trump helped change that”, in CNN‎[2], archived from the original on 26 July 2025:
      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.
  3. (historical) 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. (historical) A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern Sweden.
    • 1881, John Kirby Hedges, The history of Wallingford‎[3], volume 1, page 170:
      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.
    • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 54:
      I have wrestled the hilt
      from the enemies' hand, avenged the evil
      done to the Danes; it is what is due.

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Proper noun

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Dane

  1. A surname transferred from the nickname for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.
    • 1913, Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2008, →ISBN, 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.
    • 2025 April 10, Dan Heching, “Eric Dane shares that he has been diagnosed with ALS”, in CNN‎[4], archived from the original on 22 April 2025:
      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.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname, or from the ethnic term Dane (like Scott or Norman).
    • 1977, Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds, Gramercy Books, published 1998, →ISBN, 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.
  3. A river, the River Dane, in Cheshire, England, which joins the River Weaver at Northwich.

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Proper noun

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Dane

  1. vocative singular of Dan

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse danir (whether directly or through Old French Dan) or Old English Dene, both from Proto-Germanic *daniz.

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Noun

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Dane (plural Danes)

  1. Dane

Descendants

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  • English: Dane
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