Hanseatic
adj ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of or pertaining to the German Hanse. not-comparable
"The Hanseatic museum is housed in a carefully-preserved gaard, or store-house and offices of the Hanseatic League of German merchants, who inhabited the German quarter (Tydskenbryggen) and were established here in great strength from 1445 to 1558 (when the Norwegians began to find their presence irksome), and brought much prosperity to the city in that period."
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More examples"The Hanseatic museum is housed in a carefully-preserved gaard, or store-house and offices of the Hanseatic League of German merchants, who inhabited the German quarter (Tydskenbryggen) and were established here in great strength from 1445 to 1558 (when the Norwegians began to find their presence irksome), and brought much prosperity to the city in that period."
Etymology
From Medieval Latin hanseaticus, from hansa, of Germanic origin, from Old High German hansa (“troop, company”), from Proto-West Germanic *hansu (“crowd, company”).
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