THANE
- a king's companion in Anglo-Saxon England, also THEGN [n -S]
- a man holding land by military service in Anglo-Saxon England [n THANES]
- member of any of several aristocratic classes of men ranking between earls and ordinary freemen, and granted lands by the king or by lords for military service
- person, ranking with an earl's son, holding lands of the king; the chief of a clan, who became one of the king's barons
- a free retainer of an Anglo-Saxon lord
- Scottish feudal lord