Dane

Meanings

Noun

• A person from Denmark or of Danish descent.
• A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern Sweden.

Proper Noun

• for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.
• A male given name from surnames, or from the ethnic term Dane (like Scott or Norman).
• river , the {{w River Dane, in|co/Cheshire|cc/England|which joins the River|river/Weaver}} at Northwich.

Related

Similar words

• Danish

Origin

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