Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   thane

   /θeɪn/

   noun

   • 1. (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. historical
   • ▪ (in Scotland) a man, often the chief of a clan, who held land from a Scottish king and ranked with an earl's son: historical "the Thane of Cawdor"

   Word Origin Old Englishtheg(e)n ‘servant, soldier’, of Germanic origin; related to German Degen ‘warrior’, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek teknon ‘child’, tokeus ‘parent’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. thanedom noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • T

     1

   • H

     4

   • A

     1

   • N

     1

   • E

     1

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points