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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /deɪn/
• 韻: -eɪn
• Homophone: deign (pane–pain merger)

名詞

Dane (plural Danes)

1. A person from Denmark or of Danish descent.
   • 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport‎, 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, 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.

2. (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.
3. (historical) A member of a Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern Sweden.
   • 1881, John Kirby Hedges, The history of Wallingford‎, 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.

同意語

• (person from Denmark): Danish, (rare) Danishman, (dated) Denmarkian

派生語

• Dane County (from the surname)
• Great Dane
• Red Dane

固有名詞

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, 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.

アナグラム

• Aden, Dean, Dena, Edna, Enda, Nead, aden-, ande, dean, eDNA, nade

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈdaːn(ə)/

名詞

Dane (plural Danes)

1. Dane

派生した語

• English: Dane