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Definition or meaning of the English word Thane
A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders; the king's thanes; who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them; and the ordinary thanes; who were lords of manors and who had particular (n.).
