vane

/veɪn/

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Scotland/ven/

vane noun: a weather vane.

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Noun

vane (plural vanes)

A weather vane.
Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.

Synonyms:

vexillum
(navigation) A sight on a sextant or compass.
One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.

Synonyms:

fin

Proper noun capitalized: Vane

Vane (plural Vanes)

A surname.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- If it had not been for George’s early walk, and for the arrival of the red motorcar, she and Annira, and their father, and Alastair, and Uncle Edward Erskine (the Dean of Camford), and his daughter Vane would at this moment have been gaily bidding one another “Good morning” at the breakfast table.1914 June 7, C[harles] N[orris] Williamson, A[lice] M[uriel] Williamson, “The Screen”, in The Sunday Star, number 479 (19,611 overall), Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, part 3 (Sunday Magazine of The...
- Her company, all English, will include Edmund Gwenn, C. M. Hallard, Herbert Marshall and Vane Featherston.1922 January 29, “The Week’s Plays”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

vane meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

vane in Tamil

தகடு, தட்டை, சிறை, திசைகாட்டி, சிறகு, இதழ்

vane in Malayalam

വായൂഗതിദർശിയന്ത്രം

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vane in Kannada: ವಾಯು ದಿಕ್ಸೂಚಿ, ಪ್ರವಾಹ ದಿಕ್ಸೂಚಿ, ಗಾಳಿಕೋಳಿ
vane in Gujarati: વેને

Synonyms of vane

vexillum
fin

Forms of vane

Noun
plural	vanes
Proper noun
plural	Vanes

Plural of vane: vanes

Origin of vane

From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“something woven; weave; tissue; fabric; cloth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foone (“flag, banner”), Dutch vaan (“banner, flag”), German Low German Fahn (“flag”), German Fahne. Doublet of obsolete fane (“weathercock; banner”) and fanon.

Variant of Vanes or Fayne.

Words formed from vane

Phrases with vane

Words that rhyme with vane

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Questions about vane

What does vane mean?: Vane means a weather vane.
What is vane in Hindi?: Vane in Hindi is वैने. See Vane meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is vane?: Vane can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce vane?: Vane is pronounced /veɪn/ (UK).
What is the plural of vane?: The plural of vane is vanes.

Words near vane in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: vane (page history and authors); Vane (page history and authors); vane (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vane (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vane (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vane (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vane (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vane (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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: 2026-09-02

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