Definitions for hansas

hansas Han·sa

Spelling: [han-suh, -zuh]
IPA: /ˈhæn sə, -zə/

Hansas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in hansas (aahnss).

Definitions for hansas

noun

  1. a company or guild of merchants in a northern European medieval town.
  2. a fee paid to a merchant guild by a new member.
  3. Also called Hansa town, Hansetown. a town that is a member of the Hanseatic League.
  4. Hanseatic League.

Origin of hansas

Medieval Latin; replacing Middle English hans, hanze Middle Low German hanse; cognate with Old English hōs, Old High German, Gothic hansa company

Examples for hansas

Why should not the Hansa, he pleaded, once more play the rôle of king-maker?

But Waldemar had resolved to break entirely the power of the Hansa.

So perished the last great Hanseatic hero and with him the Hansa's power.

Nay, this question can receive no final reply in any period of the Hansa's history.

It terminated in 1370, leaving the Hansa master of the situation.

Under this pressure, in 1597, an exception was made in favor of the Hansa.

What a degradation of sentiment in the Hansa when the cause of one was no longer the cause of all!

In number and excellence of ships the Hansa had the advantage.

This was the Hanseatic League (so called from the word Hansa, a convention).

Such trade warriors are not uncommon in the history of the Hansa.

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