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HASTINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hastings mean? 

HASTINGS (noun)
  The noun HASTINGS has 3 senses:

1. United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)play

2. a town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where the battle of Hastings took placeplay

3. the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquestplay

  Familiarity information: HASTINGS used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


HASTINGS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hastings; Thomas Hastings

Instance hypernyms:

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))


Sense 2

Meaning:

A town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where the battle of Hastings took place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Hastings" is a part of...):

East Sussex (a county in southern England on the English Channel)


Sense 3

Meaning:

The decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

battle of Hastings; Hastings

Instance hypernyms:

pitched battle (a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place)

Domain region:

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Holonyms ("Hastings" is a part of...):

Norman Conquest (the invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the battle of Hastings (1066))


 Context examples 


You'll find their footmarks all over the Hastings sands, in Kent, and in Sussex.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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