FANE

Definitions: FANE

FANE

Noun

1. A weathercock.

2. A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

"FANE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a crown".

Date "FANE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms within Context: FANE

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Temple	Temple, cathedral, minster, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry, oratory.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: FANE

English words defined with "FANE": Phane. (references)

Specialty definitions using "FANE": Kildare's Holy Fane ♦ William. (references)

Etymologies containing "FANE": Phane. (references)

Non-English Usage: "FANE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (flag, standard).

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Modern Usage: FANE

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Under den gamle fane (1932)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: FANE

Domain	Title
Books	A Biography of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland (Studies in British History: Vol 22) (reference) Annabel Fane (reference) Demon God's Fane (reference) Fane (reference) Miss Fane in India (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: FANE

"FANE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 58.33% of the time. "FANE" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	58.33%	7	133,076
Noun (singular)	16.67%	2	245,945
Adjective (general or positive)	16.67%	2	245,945
Unclassified Items	8.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: FANE

The following table summarizes the usage of "FANE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Fane	Last name	1,000	16,957
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: FANE

"FANE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a crown".

The following table summarizes names related to "FANE."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Stephen	Male	Biblical	N/A
Stefan	Male	Bulgarian	Stephen
Stephen	Male	English	N/A
Stefan	Male	German	Stephen
Stefan	Male	Polish	Stephen
Fane	Male	Romanian	Stefan
Stefan	Male	Romanian	Stephen
Stefan	Male	Scandinavian	Stephen
Stefan	Male	Slovene	Stephen
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: FANE

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "FANE": onslow-fane.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FANE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
fane	32
fane speaker	11
fane spencer	8
fane jeg	3
britt browne fane spencer	2
fane lozman	2
acoustic fane	2
britt fane spencer	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: FANE

Language		Translations for "FANE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Tempull (temple). (various references)

Bulgarian		Храм. (various references)

Finnish		höyty (down, web). (various references)

Greek		Επιδεικτική � αρέλαση, Θορυβώδησ � αρέλαση. (various references)

Hungarian		Templom (church, church-building, house of prayer, house of worship, kirk, place of worship, tabernacle, temple). (various references)

Indonesian		kuil (temple). (various references)

Italian		Tempio (temple). (various references)

Manx		chiamble (temple). (various references)

Pig Latin		anefay

Portuguese		Santuário (Bethel, chancel, holy, penetrate, presbytery, sanctuary, shrine, sumptuary, wildlife sanctuary), Baile À Fantasia. (various references)

Romanian		Templu (monopteron, sanctuary, temple), Bisericã (abbey, church, clergy, fold, Kirk, sanctuary), Altar (altar, sanctuary, shrine). (various references)

Russian		Храм. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		hram (temple). (various references)

Swedish		Tempel (sanctuary, temple). (various references)

Turkish		Tapınak (chapel, place of worship, sanctuary, shrine, tabernacle, temple), Mabet (chapel, sanctuary, temple), Kilise (church, fold, Kirk, meeting house, parish, public worship). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: FANE

Derivations
	Words beginning with "FANE": fanega, fanegada, fanegadas, fanegas, fanes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "FANE": profane. (additional references)
	Words containing "FANE": profaned, profanely, profaneness, profanenesses, profaner, profaners, profanes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FANE"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "FANE" (pronounced fā"n)
3	f ā" n	fain, feign, profane.
2	-ā" n	abstain, alane, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, bane, blain, brain, butane, Cain, campaign, cane, chain, champagne, Champaign, cocaine, complain, constrain, contain, crane, delaine, detain, disdain, domain, drain, entertain, explain, gain, germane, grain, humane, inane, ingrain, inhumane, insane, Jane, kain, Kane, lain, Lane, legerdemain, main, maintain, mane, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, overtrain, pain, pane, pertain, plain, plane, preordain, rain, refrain, regain, reign, rein, remain, restrain, retain, retrain, Romaine, sain, sane, slain, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, Swain, terrain, Thane, train, twain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, wain, wane.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: FANE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-n"
	-1 letter: ane, fan, fen, nae.
	-2 letters: ae, an, ef, en, fa, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-n"
	+1 letter: faena, fanes, frena, ganef, kenaf.
	+2 letters: affine, deafen, defang, enface, fadein, faenas, fainer, fallen, famine, fanega, fanged, fanjet, fanned, fanner, fasten, fatten, faunae, fawned, fawner, fiance, finale, flamen, flanes, flange, flaxen, foeman, fraena, furane, ganefs, infare, kenafs, unsafe.
	+3 letters: affined, affines, antefix, baneful, caffein, deafens, defangs, defiant, endleaf, enfaced, enfaces, enflame, enframe, engraft, faciend, fadeins, faience, fainest, fainted, fainter, famines, fancied, fancier, fancies, fanegas, fanfare, fanjets, fanlike, fanners, fannies, fanwise, fanzine, farness, fascine, fastens, fatness, fattens, fawners, fawnier, fazenda, fearing, feasing, feazing, fenagle, fenland, fiancee, fiances, finable, finagle, finales, finance, fireman, firepan, flagmen, flamens, flaneur, flanged, flanger, flanges, flanked, flanken, flanker, flannel, flatten, flavine, flavone, foramen, foreman, foreran, fraenum, franked, franker, freeman, frenula, funeral, furanes, furnace, infante, infares, inflame, inflate, leafing, profane, refrain, snaffle, snafued, unfaded, unfaked, unfazed, uniface.
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