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Danish

Danish \Dan"ish\, a. [See Dane.] Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country. -- n. The language of the Danes.

Danish dog (Zo["o]l.), one of a large and powerful breed of dogs reared in Denmark; -- called also great Dane. See Illustration in Appendix.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Danish

Old English Denisc "people of Denmark" (see Dane); danish pastry is 1934; shortened form danish is from 1963.

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danish

n. Danish pastry, light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruit or cheese.

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Danish

Danish may refer to:

  • Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark
  • A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane". For information about the people of Denmark
    • Demographics of Denmark
    • Culture of Denmark
  • Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity
    • List of Danes
  • The Danish language, a North Germanic language used mostly in Denmark and Northern Germany
    • Languages of Denmark
  • A Danish pastry, often simply called a "Danish"
  • The Danish tongue or Old Norse, the parent language of all North Germanic languages
  • A member of the Daner, a Germanic tribe
  • Danish (name), a male given name
Danish (name)

Danish , also spelled Danesh or Daniş, is a male given name, it may refer to:

Usage examples of "danish".

King Sweyn was at this time preparing to hold such a feast before taking possession of the Danish kingdom, so it was arranged that Sweyn and Sigvaldi should make one arvel serve for them both, and Sweyn sent word to Sigvaldi inviting him with all his captains and chosen warriors to join him in Zealand, and so arrange it that the greatest possible honour should be done to the dead.

Duchy of Schleswig into the Danish state overlooked I might have, but personal Battenberg insult I will not.

There was an enormously great Danish boarhound, which had, unperceived by us, followed Mrs.

I think you might like to know that Danish people are being insulted and maligned here in England, and that Kierkegaard, Andersen, Branner, Blixen and Farquitt are having their books burned.

The effectiveness of the rocket attack against the Danish flagship Christiania was due more to the intrepidity of Captain Richter in the attack, than to the inherent suitability of the weapon.

Born in north England, the ancient Danelagh, long settled by blue-eyed vikings, his blood was neither Saxon nor Norman, but Danish, and the grim unbreakable strength of the blue North was his.

Rosamond and the party at the fish pool, when the sub-prior showed us a fine patch of the Danewort growing near the monastery, which he told us indicated that Pendyke was once a Danish settlement, and that Danes had been massacred there in the time of the Saxon king Ethelred, and hence sprang up this bloodwort, now so famed for sprains and bruises.

She took a little time, sipping Evian water and thinking cool thoughts, before turning her attention to the next document: an order form to a Danish importer of violent pornography.

German port of Flensburg near the Danish border, there had been an event of greater significance 500 miles to the south.

A letter from the Danish town of Aabenraa tells how the Halifax crashed in an orchard on the north bank of the Flensburg Fjord near Sonderborg.

German General from his new headquarters at Flensburg on the Danish frontier full powers to sign the document of unconditional surrender.

Bernadotte ended by saying that General Schellenberg was now in Flensburg, near the Danish border, eagerly waiting for news, and could make sure that any message would reach Himmler immediately.

English were deserted in the battle, from the cowardice or treachery of their three leaders, all of them men of Danish race, Frena, Frithegist, and Godwin, who gave the example of a shameful flight to the troops under their command.

They chatted a few more minutes, with Austin filling Gamay in on the rescue of the Danish sailors, then hung up, with Gamay promising to get right on the Oceanus request.

The tropical fabric, the Greenlandic respect for fine clothes, the Danish joy in luxury all merged together.