Word.ws English Dictionary

thegnhood

thegnhood is the obsolete form of thanehood.

Meaning of thanehood

Noun

thanehood (uncountable)

  1. The character or rank of a thane.
    • times when England had a King and a People , a Clergy and a Thanehood[…]1849, The Theologian

Forms of thegnhood

pluralthegnhoods

Origin of thegnhood

From thegn + -hood.

Questions about thegnhood

What is thegnhood the obsolete form of?
Thegnhood is the obsolete form of thanehood.

Words near thegnhood in the dictionary

  1. theftuous
  2. theftuously
  3. thegn
  4. thegndom
  5. thegndoms
  6. thegnhood
  7. thegnhoods
  8. thegnland
  9. thegnlands
  10. thegnly
  11. thegns

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thegnhood (page history and authors); thanehood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “thegnhood.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thegnhood. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.