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English

Noun

fane (plural fanes)

  • (obsolete) A weathercock, a weather vane.
    • ✤ The ſteeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the preſent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four fanes mounted on ſpires, on the four corners; theſe being judged too weak for the fanes, were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ſteeple altered.1
  • (obsolete) A banner, especially a military banner.
    • ✤ So fate fell-woven forward drave him,
      and with malice Mordred his mind hardened,
      saying that war was wisdom and waiting folly.
      ‘Let their fanes be felled and their fast places
      bare and broken, burned their havens,
      and isles immune from march of arms
      or Roman reign now reek to heaven
      in fires of vengeance! [I.18-25]      2

Noun

fane (plural fanes)

  • A temple or sacred place.
    • ✤ And Pallas rear’d him; her ovvn unctuous fane/She made his habitation, vvhere vvith bulls/The youth of Athens, and vvith ſlaughter’d lambs/Her annual vvorſhip celebrate.3
    • ✤ Crown me, therefore,—and minstrelling near to thy fanes, Bacchus, thickly-adorned with rosy chaplets will I dance with a full-bosomed maid.4
    • ✤ Indeed, the bells were tolling, the people were trooping into the handsome church, the carriages of the inhabitants of the lordly quarter poured forth their pretty loads of devotees, in whose company Pen and his uncle, ending their edifying conversation, entered the fane.5
    • ✤ * Fanes are built around it for a distance of 3, 4 or 5 Indian miles; but whether these are Jaina, or more strictly Hindu is not mentioned.*6
    • ✤ The priests of the Germans and Britons were druids. They had their sacred oaken groves. Such were their steeple houses. Nature was to some extent a fane to them.7
    • ✤ It was a wonderful sight to see the full moon looking down on the ruined fane of Kør.8
    • ✤ And this ideal conception is found beaming like a golden ray upon each idol, however coarse and grotesque, in the crowded galleries of the sombre fanes of India and other Mother lands of cults.9
    • ✤ He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […] the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.10
    • ✤ [The bookshop] seemed like a secret fane, some shrine of curious rites, and the young man’s throat was tightened by a stricture which was half agitation and half tobacco.11

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /feɪn/
  • Audio (US): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -eɪn
  • Homophones: feign, foehn, fain (archaic)

Etymology 1

From Middle English fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner”), from Proto-West Germanic ﹡fanō, from Proto-Germanic ﹡fanô (“cloth, flag”), from Proto-Indo-European ﹡peh₂n- (“to weave; something woven; cloth, fabric, tissue”). Doublet of fanon and vane.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fane (“temple”), from Latin fānum (“temple, place dedicated to a deity”). Doublet of fanum.

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 1801, John Baillie, An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne, page 541: ↩

  2. c. 1935, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur, Harper Collins, London, published 2013, →ISBN, page 18: ↩

  3. 1791, Homer, “[The Iliad.] Book II.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 52, lines 664–667: ↩

  4. 1830, Anacreon, “Ode V. On the Rose.”, in T. W. C. Edwards, transl., Τα του Ανακρεοντος του Τηιου Μελη = The Odes of Anacreon the Teian Bard, Literally Translated into English Prose; […], London: […] [J. M‘Gowan and Son] for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, […], →OCLC, page 22: ↩

  5. 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 41, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC: ↩

  6. 1850, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, volume 16, page 64: ↩

  7. 1884, Henry David Thoreau, Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, page 78: ↩

  8. 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC: ↩

  9. 1888, H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Volume 1: Cosmogenesis, Quest Books 1993 page 458: ↩

  10. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: ↩

  11. 1919, Christopher Morley, “”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC: ↩

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