DANE

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• DANE (noun)
  The noun DANE has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Denmark

  Familiarity information: DANE used as a noun is very rare.

• DANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Denmark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Dane" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Dane"):

Zealander (a native or inhabitant of Zealand)

Holonyms ("Dane" is a member of...):

Danmark; Denmark; Kingdom of Denmark (a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea)

 Context examples 

Any one of the hepatitis B antigens found on the surface of the Dane particle and on the 20 nm spherical and tubular particles.

(Hepatitis B Virus HBsAg Surface Protein Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)

I was born within a hundred miles of that stretch of water. But I was not born Norwegian. I am a Dane.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Even the Jacks aboard our ships fought with a viciousness against a French vessel which they would never show to Dane, Dutchman, or Spaniard.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All Danes have short, thick, close-fitting hair.

(Great Dane, NCI Thesaurus)

This was bad enough; but, as the philosophic Dane observes, with that universal applicability which distinguishes the illustrious ornament of the Elizabethan Era, worse remains behind!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

More than 600,000 Danes are being treated with cholesterol lowering medicine. 98 per cent of them are treated with statins, which curb the body's own production of cholesterol so that the level of cholesterol falls.

(Discovery Can Pave the Way for More Effective Cholesterol Medicine, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

At the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which is the scene of part of "Marmion," where the girl was built up in the wall.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The Great Dane is a giant dog with a long narrow head and ears that are either cropped rather long, pointed, and carried erect, or left natural.

(Great Dane, NCI Thesaurus)

My father and mother were Danes, and how they ever came to that bleak bight of land on the west coast I do not know. I never heard.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)