Definitions for hansoms

hansoms han·som

Spelling: [han-suh m]
IPA: /ˈhæn səm/

Hansoms is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in hansoms (ahmnoss).

Definitions for hansoms

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 hansoms

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

Examples for hansoms

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for hansoms
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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