Complete Definition of "fane"

English

Etymology
From Latin fanum

Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪn|-eɪn

Noun
en-noun

  1. A temple or sacred place.

#:The priests of the Germans and Britons were druids.... Nature was to some extent a fane to them. (w:Henry David Thoreau|Thoreau, 1852)

  1. obsolete A weathercock.

Related terms
profane

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