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De·ne

also Dé·né (dā′nē, dā-nā′)

n. (used with a pl. verb)

The Athabaskan-speaking peoples of northwest Canada and inland Alaska considered as a group.

dene

(dēn)

n. Chiefly British

A sandy tract or dune by the seashore.

[Possibly East Frisian düne, a sand dune; akin to dune.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

dene

(diːn) or

dean

(Physical Geography) Brit a valley, esp one that is narrow and wooded

[Old English denu valley; see den]

dene

(diːn) or

dean

(Physical Geography) dialect chiefly Southern English a sandy stretch of land or dune near the sea

[C13: probably related to Old English dūn hill; see down³]

Dene

(ˈdɛnɪ; ˈdɛneɪ)

pl n

(Peoples) the North American Indian peoples of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in Canada. The official body representing them is called the Dene Nation

[via French déné, from Athapascan dene people]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

dene

(din)

n. Brit.

a sandy tract or low hill.

[1815–20; earlier den, in same sense, Middle English (in phrase den and strond); of uncertain orig.]

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Oldacre is a bachelor, fifty-two years of age, and lives in Deep Dene House, at the Sydenham end of the road of that name.

"This place, Deep Dene House, is a big modern villa of staring brick, standing back in its own grounds, with a laurel-clumped lawn in front of it.

A crowd of morbid sightseers were still gathered round Deep Dene House, which was just such a suburban villa as I had pictured.

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IN reply to John Dias's letter (last Monday), if you are hoping for a reply from the council about the lack of maintenance of our parks, denes and green spaces, you'll wait a long time.

A blooming disgrace; Letters

MICK McCarthy insists it will still be difficult to accommodate Wolves midfielder Denes Rosa in his first-team plans - despite the Hungarian's glut of goals for the reserves.

Football: Mick still unlikely to turn to Rosa

High-dose IV methylprednisolone is the most utilized treatment, and the patient in the Denes et al.

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Italian-born Denes Petri and his wife Roseanne said they had become the target of mindless bigots.

VICTIMS OF THE RACISTS

In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital By Magda Denes 247 pp., New York, Basic Books, $10.

In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital

FIVE denes are to be transformed into gateways to Durham's designated heritage coastline.

pounds 281,500 lottery grant for coastline

A strike from Hungarian midfielder Denes Rosa, his first for the club, followed by Kenny Miller's penalty sealed the points and moved Wolves into the top six of the Championship.

Football: WOLVES 2 CARDIFF 0

Denes works in the department of infections diseases in the teaching hospital of Limoges, France, and cares for patients with all types of infections.

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Just north of Easington is one of the deep coastal denes cut into the magnesian limestone which add to the special character of the County Durham coast.

`All you can hear are birds, this is the country'

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