Dane

名词 n. 专有名词
中文释义
英 /deɪn/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person of a North Germanic ethnic group native to Scandinavia, comprising the ethnic majority of 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.
  2. 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
  3. A member of 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.
专有名词
  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. 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. A river, the River Dane, in Cheshire, England, which joins the River Weaver at Northwich.

词形变化

Danes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Dane County Great Dane Red Dane

词源

词源 1
From Middle English Dane, from Old Norse danir or Old English Dene. Both forms ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *daniz.
词源 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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