thane

IPA: θˈeɪn

(historical) A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron.
A large city and district of Maharashtra, India, part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

Examples of "thane" in Sentences

A thane was a sort of chieftain in the Saxon state.
˜Master,™ he called the thane, but had never thought of him as such.
I bowed to him, and he took my hand, calling me "thane" in all good faith.
I want to start a membership site and I hear they are better thane-junkie with that.
"Then," he went on, "come you to the hall door and bide there while I go in and call the thane thither.
At least Shakespeare used 'thane', so anyone who has ever seen or read the Scottish Play may have come across it.
While, since thegn and thane are both archaisms, I prefer the former; not only for the same reason that induces Sir Francis Palgrave to prefer it, viz., because it is the more etymologically correct; but because we take from our neighbours the Scotch, not only the word thane, but the sense in which we apply it; and that sense is not the same that we ought to attach to the various and complicated notions of nobility which the Anglo-Saxon comprehended in the title of thegn.