Definitions for hansom

hansom han·som

Spelling: [han-suh m]
IPA: /ˈhæn səm/

Hansom is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in hansom (ahmnos).

Definitions for hansom

noun

  1. a low-hung, two-wheeled, covered vehicle drawn by one horse, for two passengers, with the driver being mounted on an elevated seat behind and the reins running over the roof.
  2. any similar horse-drawn vehicle.

Origin of hansom

1850-55; named after J. A. Hansom (1803-82), English architect who designed it

Examples for hansom

There are four-wheeled cabs, and there is even a hansom to be had.

Flo, you must be here for the news, if I have to go in a hansom and kidnap you.

He told me that the Marquis owned the hansom; for I asked him whose it was.

She awoke from her reverie when Lady Willow stepped into the hansom.

Get this gentleman's luggage, and bring it to that hansom there.

“Be exact in what you say,” Ossipon lectured in the swift motion of the hansom.

We won't say a word about terms; I'll pay you all that's left over from my hansom fares.'

The doors of the hansom opened with a creak and banged back on their spring.

On reaching the hansom, she handed up the slip of paper to the driver.

He saw their hansom and ran downstairs to meet them, as he always did.

Word Value for hansom
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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