Definitions for Hansel

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Hansel han·sel

Spelling: [han-suh l]

IPA: /ˈhæn səl/

Hansel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in Hansel (aehlns).

Definitions for Hansel

noun

1. a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
2. a first installment of payment.
3. the initial experience of anything; first encounter with or use of something taken as a token of what will follow; foretaste.

verb (used with object)

1. to give a handsel to.
2. to inaugurate auspiciously.
3. to use, try, or experience for the first time.

noun, verb (used with object)

1. handsel.

Origin of Hansel

before 1050; Middle English handselne good-luck token, good-will gift, Old English handselen manumission, literally, hand-gift (see hand, sell

Examples for Hansel

I am looking at my little dove,” answered hansel, “nodding a good-by to me.

We cannot get over,” said hansel; “I can see no bridge at all.

Much like Max, hansel and Gretel are abandoned by their parents in the forest and forced to fend for themselves.

hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters manages to change the fairy tale so that its protagonists are armed like GI Joe.

After a few ridiculous barbs, Zoolander flexes his ego, challenging hansel to a “walk-off.”

But I said: 'hansel and Gretel is one of the scariest stories ever written!

The folk tale “hansel and Gretel” originated in these years.

When noon came Grethel shared her bread with hansel, who had strewn his on the path.

Gretel wept bitterly, and said to hansel, "What will become of us?"

Grethel wept bitterly, and said to hansel, “What will become of us?”