noun

• A person of Danish descent.
• A person from Denmark.
• (historical) A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern Sweden.
• A surname transferred from the nickname for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.
• A male given name transferred from the surname, or from the ethnic term Dane (like Scott or Norman).
• A river, the River Dane, in Cheshire, England, which joins the River Weaver at Northwich.