English

Etymology

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪn

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. (Thoreau, 1852)

2. A weathercock.

Related terms

• profane

• Fane, Papua New Guinea, a mountain village in Central Province, Papua New Guinea, co-founded by Simona Noorenbergh
• Fane Acoustics Limited, a British manufacturer of loudspeakers
• Fane (surname), people with the surname Fane
• Temple or sacred place
• Fane River in Co. Louth, Ireland.
• Fane an Ayrshire name for a fairy, or possibly a literary corruption of Fay

See also

• Vane