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Definitions: Thane |
ThaneNoun1. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland. 2. A man ranking above an ordinary freeman and below a noble in Anglo Saxon England especially one who gave military serve in exchange for land. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thane" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1606. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nobility | King; (master); atheling; prince, duke; marquis, marquisate; earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret; baronet, baronetcy; knight, knighthood; count, armiger, laird; signior, seignior; esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour; emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali; sahib; chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The earlist evidence of Thane appears in the works of the Greek geographer, Ptolemy, who, in his writings (135-150 AD) refers to a place called Chersonesus, which, according to researches, is the area around Thane creek.
Slabs and copper plates dating back to the middle ages have also been discovered in Thane.
Venetian traveller Marco Polo also visited Thane in 1290 AD. He describes the city as a great kingdom, which apparently had a well-developed port, for he mentions a continuous traffic of ships, and merchants trading and exporting leather, buckram, cotton, and importing horses.
The Portuguese came to Thane about 1530 and ruled for over 200 years till 1739. Thane was then known as Cacabe de Tana. Work on the Thane Fort began in 1730.
The Marathas, who conquered Bassein and Thane in 1737 and 1739, held sway over the region till 1784, when the British captured the Fort and ruled Thane, then also called Tana. They made it the headquarters of the district administration with a district collector stationed in Thane. The Thane Muncipal Council was formed in 1863 when the city had a population of 9000.
The first railway train in India ran from Bombay VT (Now Mumbai CST, See Mumbai) to Thana in 1853. Thane (or Thana) literally means "station" in Marathi the local language. It was the only railway station besides Victoria Terminus.
After India's independence, Thane grew slowly and became an industrial town in the 60's and 70's. There was also a corresponding growth in trade, transport and construction activities, which picked up tremendously in the 80's. Today, while it is developing fast, this city, formerly known as the City of Lakes, is still plagued with problems such as population explosion and inadequate infrasturcture.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thane."
Crosswords: Thane |
| English words defined with "thane": Teinland, Thanage, Thanedom, Thanehood, thaneship, Thegn. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thane": Athelstane ♦ Macduff, MacPherson ♦ skadesprocent. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Sitha giya thane (1967) | |
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| "Thane" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Thane" is used about 24 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 (singular) | 75% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "thane" 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 |
| Thane | Last name | 200 | 39,024 |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
thane | 107 | stephen thane | 3 |
thane fitness | 24 | canada direct thane | 3 |
thane direct | 13 | thane canada | 3 |
bombay directory mumbai new thane | 10 | stenner thane | 3 |
thane orbitrek | 7 | pyrotechnics thane | 3 |
thane international | 6 | daoc thane | 2 |
stick thane thunder | 6 | map thane | 2 |
mumbai thane | 5 | guide thane | 2 |
dyno thane | 5 | thane gash | 2 |
pat thane | 5 | thane com | 2 |
elswyth thane | 4 | thane rosenbaum | 2 |
thane fitness orbitrek | 4 | ritchie thane | 2 |
thane uk | 4 | armor thane | 2 |
inc international thane | 4 | ||
armor thane | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "thane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zotëri (cavalier, Don, gentleman, honor, honour, Lord, milord, Mister, Sir), baron (Baron). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тан (thegn), вожд на клан (thegn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zeman (laird, squire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βαρώνοσ (thegn), ιππότησ (cavalier, knight, paladin, thegn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fõúr (magnate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anethay conde (count, earl, earldom), barão (Baron). (various references) titlu de nobil la anglo-saxonic. (various references) тан. (various references) tòiseach (a beginning). (various references) ratnik (brave, man-at-arms, man-of-war, warrior), plemić (junker, nobleman, patrician, peer, squire). (various references) ขุนนางยุคแองโกลแซกซอน. (various references) toprak karşılığı krala hizmet eden soylu, baron (baron). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "thane": thanes, thaneship, thaneships. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "thane": chlorofluoromethane, dichlorodifluoromethane, dichloroethane, ethane, halothane, hexachlorethane, hexachloroethane, methane, nitromethane, polyurethane, trihalomethane, triphenylmethane, urethane. (additional references) | |
Words containing "thane": chlorofluoromethanes, dichlorodifluoromethanes, dichloroethanes, ethanes, halothanes, hexachlorethanes, hexachloroethanes, methanes, nitromethanes, polyurethanes, trihalomethanes, triphenylmethanes, urethanes. (additional references) | |
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"Thane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ghanem, hanne, Ithana, jhana, Ohana, Othmani, tane, tanne, teane, Thaabe, thaan, thabe, thade, thae, thaene, thaer, thain, thale, thame, thaner, thang, thanne, thano, thanol, thant, thanx, thare, t'have, thawe, thawn, thaye, thaze, thebe, theen, thele, thenar, thenne, thien, thino, thone, thoned, thonne, thune, thyne, thynge, tihange, Tihany, Trane, twane, tzand, tzane, Tzaneen, Tzanne, Uthany. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thane" (pronounced thā"n) |
| 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, fain, Fane, feign, 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, profane, rain, refrain, regain, reign, rein, remain, restrain, retain, retrain, Romaine, sain, sane, slain, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, Swain, terrain, train, twain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, wain, wane. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: neath. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-n-t" | |
-1 letter: ante, eath, etna, haen, haet, hant, hate, heat, hent, neat, thae, than, then. | |
-2 letters: ane, ant, ate, eat, eta, eth, hae, hat, hen, het, nae, nah, net, nth, tae, tan, tea, ten, the. | |
-3 letters: ae, ah, an, at, eh, en, et, ha, he, na, ne, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-n-t" | |
+1 letter: anthem, anther, ethane, hanted, hantle, hapten, hasten, hetman, snathe, thanes, thenal, thenar. | |
+2 letters: anethol, another, anthems, anthers, astheny, beneath, benthal, bethank, chanted, chanter, chantey, chasten, earthen, enchant, enthral, etchant, ethanes, ethanol, gahnite, hairnet, handset, hantles, haptene, haptens, hastens, haunted, haunter, hearten, heathen, heating, hematin, heptane, hetmans, inearth, khanate, lethean, manchet, methane, narthex, panther, phaeton, phenate, phonate, phytane, shantey, sheitan, snathes, stengah, sthenia, thanage, thanked, thanker, thenage, thenars, tranche, unearth, unteach, urethan, wheaten. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 61 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .... .- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T h a n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0068 0061 006E 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5474678071 |
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