any of the Vikings who invaded England from the late 8th to the 11th century ad
Dane in American English
(deɪn)
noun
a person born or living in Denmark
Word origin
ME Dan < ON Danir (pl.) the Danes, akin to OE Dene (prob. “lowlanders” < IE base *dhen-, level lowland > den); orig., name of a continental Anglian people
Examples of 'Dane' in a sentence
Dane
Joe Stephens went with the Dane Soren, Red with Lawrence Rose.
Philip Marsden THE MAIN CAGES (2002)
He didn't care for Claude, but as the Dane had said, one took what one got.
Terman, Douglas CORMORANT
Except for Jan, Chase had never known Dane to react to a woman the way he did to Nicole.