Hanse

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from , from , from +. In reference to the, via.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, also 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.
 * 2)  The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies.
 * 3)  A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages.
 * 4)  The Hanseatic League: a commercial association of German towns in the Middle Ages.
 * , the fees payable to a Hanse or its guildhall.

Usage notes
In reference to the cities of the Hanseatic League taken collectively, used as "the ".

Synonyms

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Translations

 * Czech: Hanza
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Latin: hansa
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: hanse, gill
 * Marathi: हानसं
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Latin: Ansus

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

The modern specification of these sense follows, which is itself an early borrowing from Middle High German.

Noun

 * 1)  a guild; a kind of commercial, and sometimes military, confederation of cities in the later Middle Ages; in particular the Hanseatic League of northern Germany
 * 2)  any similar confederation based first and foremost on commercial interests
 * 1)  any similar confederation based first and foremost on commercial interests
 * 1)  any similar confederation based first and foremost on commercial interests