Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun canute

1 sense of canute

Sense 1
Canute, Cnut, Knut, Canute the Great -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> King of England, King of Great Britain -- (the sovereign ruler of England)