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Hanseatic

[ han-see-at-ik ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Hanseatic League or to any of the towns belonging to it.


noun

  1. any of the towns belonging to the Hanseatic League.

Hanseatic

/ ˌhænsɪˈætɪk /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Hanseatic League
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a member of the Hanseatic League
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Hanseatic1

1605–15; < Medieval Latin Hanseāticus, equivalent to hanse (< Middle Low German; Hansa ) + -āt- -ate 1 + -icus -ic
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Example Sentences

But the chief offenders in defying Napoleon's chimerical policy were the Dutch and Hanseatic cities.

If England would withdraw the orders in council of 1807, he would evacuate Holland and the Hanseatic towns.

It ultimately included more than eighty cities and became one of the greatest commercial powers in Europe (see Hanseatic League).

The Danes took innumerable prizes and crippled the commerce of the Hanseatic cities.

The Hanseatic League had long been offended at their overweening pride; and it now left them and removed its factory to Antwerp.

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