Associations to the word «Canute»

Wiktionary

CANUTE, proper noun. (historical) A male given name used in England from the eleventh to the thirteenth century.
CANUTE, proper noun. Canute the Great, king of England, Denmark and Norway.
CANUTE, proper noun. A town in Oklahoma.

Dictionary definition

CANUTE, noun. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of all England (994-1035).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats