Hanover

[ han-oh-ver ]

noun

1. a member of the royal family that ruled Great Britain under that name from 1714 to 1901.
2. a former province in NW Germany; now a district in Lower Saxony. 14,944 sq. mi. (38,705 sq. km).
3. a city in and the capital of Lower Saxony, in N central Germany.
4. a city in S Pennsylvania.
5. a town in SE Massachusetts.

Hanover

¹

/ ˈhænəʊvə /

noun

1. a princely house of Germany (1692–1815), the head of which succeeded to the British throne as George I in 1714
2. the royal house of Britain (1714–1901)

Hanover

²

/ ˈhænəʊvə /

noun

1. the English spelling of Hannover

Example Sentences

New Hanover and Nash counties went to Trump in 2016, and flipped to Biden in 2020.

From Slate

On Feb. 11, 2023, the choreographer Marco Goecke cornered a dance critic, Wiebke Hüster, during intermission of a performance at the Hanover State Opera in northern Germany.

From New York Times

After the incident, Goecke gave up his position as Hanover company’s ballet director “by mutual agreement.”

From New York Times

At Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, President Sian Leah Beilock called in police to dismantle a pro-Palestinian encampment just a few hours after it went up.

From Seattle Times

With the help of high-performance computers, the research team, which also includes Chris Lauber's working group from the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research in Hanover, has sifted through almost 300,000 data sets.

From Science Daily