thane
Meaning of thane
noun
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a man who held land granted by the king or by a military nobleman, ranking between an ordinary freeman and a hereditary noble.
Old English theg(e)n ‘servant, soldier’, of Germanic origin; related to German Degen ‘warrior’, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek teknon ‘child’, tokeus ‘parent’.
Information about thane
- It is a name.
- The plural form of thane is: thanes.
- Languages in which thane is used:
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Hyphenation of thane
thane
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- thane is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of thane
ahent, Aneth, Anthe, enhat, Ethan, ethan, nathe, neath
Words that rhyme with thane
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