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Arne

proper nounattested in dialogue

A male given name from the Germanic languages occasionally used in English.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from the Germanic languages occasionally used in English.

    “If we have created a holiday camp for criminals here, so what?” asked Arne Kvernvik Nilsen, the prison’s governor and a former minister and psychologist. He added, “We should reduce the risk of reoffending, because if we don’t, what’s the point of punishment, except for leaning toward the primitive side of humanity?”

  2. 2

    A surname originating as a patronymic.

  3. 3

    A hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, formerly in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY9788).

  4. 4

    A township in Benson County, North Dakota, United States.

Etymology

For the given name, a short form of Old Norse compound names beginning with arn- (“eagle”).

Forms

plural
Arnes
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).