DANELAW

Etymology

Proper noun

Danelaw

(history) The part of Great Britain in which the laws of the Scandinavians dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.

(history) The set of legal terms and definitions created in the treaties between the English Alfred the Great and the Danish Guthrum the Old.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

12 June 2025

RAREFACTION

(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”


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