dan – English noun declension

English noun forms of dan

Noun: dan
Singulardan
Pluraldans; dan

Sample Sentences

  • Dan Phoebus, he with many a low'ring look / Had her beheld in yore in angry wise. [1578, George Gascoigne, “A Moonshine Banquet”, in A Hundred Sundry Flowers:]
  • Old Dan Geoffrey, in whose gentle spright / The pure well-head of Poesy did dwell. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
  • This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, dan Cupid. [c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]
  • The patriarchal age, / What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land. [1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:]
  • He did—and in a moment press'd / The place—in Paradise the best, / As by Dan Moses said. [1777, James Perry, The Electrical Eel; or, Gymnotus Electricus:]
  • Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath / Preluded those melodious bursts, that fill / The spacious times of great Elizabeth / With sounds that echo still. [1842, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women:]
  • Dan Neptune says that "ere a twelvemonth pass, / The Senate shall to Ireland go to grass." [1846, Terence McMahon Hughes, The Biliad:]
  • Oh, me' name is Dan Homer, I'm blind, as the Jews, / And I travels around with my head full av news. [1962, A. D. Hope, The Ballad of Dan Homer:]

Etymology

From Middle English dan, daun, dam (“lord”), from Anglo-Norman daun, daunz and Old French dan, dam, from Latin dominus. Doublet of don. See: Middle English Nouns 'dan', Latin Nouns 'dominus'.