vane
/veɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A weather vane.
noun
Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
noun
The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
name
A surname.
name
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Example Sentences
- "If it had not been for George’s early walk, and for the arrival of the red motorcar, she and Annira, and their father, and Alastair, and Uncle Edward Erskine (the Dean of Camford), and his daughter Vane would at this moment have been gaily bidding one another “Good morning” at the breakfast table."
- "Her company, all English, will include Edmund Gwenn, C. M. Hallard, Herbert Marshall and Vane Featherston."
- "Vane V. Shook, fireman, Lansing, Mich., and Esther M. Messner, domestic, Edon, Ohio."
- "William and Lisa Hurst (Metzel), Burlington, boy, Vane McCord, March 28."
Etymology
From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“something woven; weave; tissue; fabric; cloth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foone (“flag, banner”), Dutch vaan (“banner, flag”), German Low German Fahn (“flag”), German Fahne. Doublet of obsolete fane (“weathercock; banner”) and fanon.
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /veɪn/
- British English: /veɪn/