Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- noun A person of Danish ancestry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Denmark, a kingdom of northern Europe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark.
- noun (Zoöl.) See Danish dog, under
Danish .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person from
Denmark or ofDanish descent. - proper noun A
surname for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant ofDean . - proper noun A male
given name transferred from the surname, or from the ethnic term Dane (likeScott orNorman ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a native or inhabitant of Denmark
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She's high spirited and speaks her mind, sometimes a bit too much, especially since she lives in a Puritan colony, and her grandfather Dane is also Reverend Dane.
The Sacrifice 2005
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She's high spirited and speaks her mind, sometimes a bit too much, especially since she lives in a Puritan colony, and her grandfather Dane is also Reverend Dane.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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Another is Saint Dane from a series I used to read when I was younger by DJ MacHale.
Angels' Blood Countdown: Deidre Knight - Red Fire Nalini Singh 2009
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And most of us know that a Great Dane is a breed of dog.
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"Little that counts, one way or the other," joined in Dane Jurgensen, coming to the aid of his Scandinavian brother.
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And most of us know that a Great Dane is a breed of dog.
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The Serbian Dane is a very tense thriller about a visit to Denmark by an Iranian author under threat of a fatwa.
Sunday Salon: discovering Denmark Maxine 2008
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The Serbian Dane is a very tense thriller about a visit to Denmark by an Iranian author under threat of a fatwa.
Sunday Salon: discovering Denmark Maxine 2008
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Once again Dane Chandos weaves a vivid Mexican tapestry of the same charm, color, humor and veracity that evoked from the readers of his first book, Village in the Sun, such a unanimously rapturous response ..
Dane Chandos Books 2008
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The Serbian Dane is a very tense thriller about a visit to Denmark by an Iranian author under threat of a fatwa.
January 2008 Maxine 2008
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