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fanenoun
A temple or sacred place.
The priests of the Germans and Britons were druids.... Nature was to some extent a fane to them. (Thoreau, 1852)
fanenoun
A weathercock, weather vane
Etymology: From Latin fanum
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Fanenoun
A temple; a place consecrated to religion.
Etymology: fane, French; fanum, Latin.
Nor fane, nor capitol,
The prayers of priests, nor times of sacrifice,
Embarments all of fury, shall lift up
Their rotten privilege. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.Old Calibe, who kept the sacred fane
Of Juno, now she seem’d. John Dryden, Æn. b. vii. l. 589.Yet some to fanes repair’d, and humble rites
Perform’d to Thor and Woden, fabled gods,
Who with their vot’ries in one ruin shar’d. Phillips.A sacred fane in Egypt’s fruitful lands,
Hewn from the Theban mountain’s rocky womb. Thomas Tickell.The fields are ravish’d from th’ industrious swains,
From men their cities, and from gods their fanes. Alexander Pope.
Wikipedia
fane
The Fédération d'action nationale et européenne (FANE) was a small French far-right neo-Nazi organisation founded in April 1966. It was led by Mark Fredriksen, a bank employee who became involved in activism for French Algeria after serving in the paras (paratroopers) there. FANE brought together three movements: Action-Occident, the Cercle Charlemagne and the Comité de soutien à l'Europe réelle.
Webster Dictionary
Fanenoun
a temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church
Fanenoun
a weathercock
Etymology: [See Vane.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Fane
fān, n. (obs.) a flag: weathercock. [Vane.]
Fane
fān, n. a temple. [L. fanum.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
fane
An old term for weather-cock: "a fayne of a schipe." (See VANE.)
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FANE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fane is ranked #25136 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Fane surname appeared 987 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fane.
52% or 514 total occurrences were White.
38.5% or 380 total occurrences were Black.
3.6% or 36 total occurrences were of two or more races.
3.1% or 31 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fane in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fane in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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