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bane.

bane, person/thing/event that kills someone or something

4 characters2 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈbæːnə]

  1. bane, person/thing/event that kills someone or something

    archaic · common-gender · indeclinable · poetic
Where this word comes from

From Old Danish banæ, from Old Norse bani.

noun[ˈbæːnə]

  1. track

    common-gender

  2. trajectory

    common-gender

  3. trajectory lifepath

    common-gender · figuratively

  4. railway

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Middle Low German bane, from Old Saxon *bana, from Proto-West Germanic *banu, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *banō.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.