The meaning of Thanes
θeɪn
Thanes – definition
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.
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noun(in england at the time of the anglo-saxons) a man who was given land by the king or a military ruler and who held a rank above that of the common people
noun(in scotland in the past) a man who controlled an area of land given by the king and who held the rank of a noble (= person of the highest social rank)
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Word origin
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’.
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