Dane

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim 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.
3. isim A member of a Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern Sweden.

   “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.”

4. özel isim 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.”

5. özel isim A male given name transferred from the surname, or from the ethnic term Dane (like Scott or Norman).
6. özel isim A river, the River Dane, in Cheshire, England, which joins the River Weaver at Northwich.