zane

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Definition of zane in English English dictionary

A male given name

given name, male

Related Terms

Zane Grey

orig. Pearl Grey born Jan. 31, 1872, Zanesville, Ohio, U.S. died Oct. 23, 1939, Altadena, Calif. U.S. novelist. He began his career as a dentist. He first visited the American West in 1906, setting his first novel, The Heritage of the Desert (1910), there. His second novel, Riders of the Purple Sage (1912), was also set in the West and became the most popular of all his books; it helped launch a new literary genre, the western. Grey subsequently wrote more than 80 westerns, including Code of the West (1934). He remains one of the best-selling authors of all time

Turkish pronunciation

zeyn

Pronunciation

/ˈzān/ /ˈzeɪn/

Etymology

() The usage seems to date from the American writer Zane Grey (1875-1939), born Pearl Zane Gray. It was the surname of his mother's family, from Ohio, of unknown meaning. * Zane is sometimes explained as a form of John because of the resemblance to Shane, or because Italian surnames such as Zanelli and Zanetto derive from Giovanni ( =John).