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thein

thein is the alternative spelling of theine.

thein is the obsolete form of thane.

Meaning of theine

Noun

theine (uncountable)

  1. Caffeine when present in tea.
    • Caffeine is called guaranine when found in guarana, mateine when found in mate and theine when found in tea. There is far more caffeine in coffees than in teas.2010, Crispian Scully, Medical Problems in Dentistry E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 693

Meaning of thane

Noun

thane (plural thanes)

  1. (historical) A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron.
    • Sonnes, Kinsmen, Thanes, / And you whose places are the nearest, know, / We will establish our Estate vpon / Our eldest, Malcolme, whom we name hereafter, / The Prince of Cumberland: […]c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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Proper noun capitalized: Thein

Thein (plural Theins)

  1. A surname.

Forms of thein

Noun
pluraltheins
Proper noun
pluralTheins

Origin of thein

Borrowing from Burmese သိန်း (sin:).

Questions about thein

What does thein mean?
Thein means a surname.
What is thein the alternative spelling of?
Thein is the alternative spelling of theine.
What part of speech is thein?
Thein is a proper noun.

Words near thein in the dictionary

  1. theilerioses
  2. theileriosis
  3. Theilers
  4. theilovirus
  5. theim
  6. thein
  7. theine
  8. theines
  9. theinism
  10. theins
  11. theion

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thein (page history and authors); Thein (page history and authors); theine (page history and authors); thane (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.

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