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Hanse

noun
/hæns/

Etymology

From Middle English hanse, from Old French hanse (“guild; guild fee”), from Medieval Latin hansa, from Old High German hansa, from Proto-West Germanic *hansu, from Proto-Germanic *hansō (“gathering; coalition; gang of men”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱómsōd (“union; gathering”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by, with, along”) + *sed- (“to sit”). In reference to the Hanseatic League, via German Hanse. Cognate with Old English hōs (“company, retinue, escorts”),

  1. derived from Hanse
  2. derived from *ḱóm✻
  3. derived from *ḱómsōd✻
  4. derived from *hansō✻
  5. derived from *hansu✻
  6. derived from hansa
  7. derived from hansa
  8. derived from hanse
  9. inherited from hanse

Definitions

  1. A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given…

    A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.

  2. The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies.

  3. A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. The Hanseatic League

      The Hanseatic League: a commercial association of German towns in the Middle Ages.

    2. Alternative form of hanse, the fees payable to a Hanse or its guildhall.

    3. Alternative form of Hanse, a merchant guild or a former commercial league of German…

      Alternative form of Hanse, a merchant guild or a former commercial league of German cities.

      • The town does not seem to have had a hanse, nor have there been discovered any records showing the existence of medieval trade guilds; […]
      • In this, they resembled the alien merchant guilds and hanses of the medieval period.
      • Gilds and hanses seized control of the export trade […]

    4. The guildhall of a Hanse.

    5. A fee payable to the Hanse, particularly its entrance fee and the impost levied on…

      A fee payable to the Hanse, particularly its entrance fee and the impost levied on non-members trading in its area.

    6. That part of an elliptical or many-centred arch which has the shorter radius and…

      That part of an elliptical or many-centred arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.

      • Now Workmen call each End of these Arches the Hanse, which Hanses are always the Arches of smaller Circles than the Scheme, which is the middle Part of these Arches, and consists of a Part of a larger Circle […]
      • The building, from the tenor of the whole description, was in the style of the Renaissance, and the pillars (spiral or wreathed) probably supported the hanses, or spring of the arch.

The neighborhood

Derived

Hansard, Hanse association, Hanseatic, Hanseatic League, Hanse city, hanse-gild, hanse-house, Hanse league, Hanse merchant, hanse-penny, Hanse town, hansing, hansing-silver

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA