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Definition of Hanover
1. Noun. A port city in northwestern Germany; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League.
Group relationships: Hanseatic League
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center, Port
Group relationships: Deutschland, Federal Republic Of Germany, Frg, Germany
2. Noun. The English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria).
Generic synonyms: Dynasty, Royal Family, Royal House, Royal Line, Royalty
Member holonyms: Hanoverian, Hanoverian, George, George I, George, George Ii, George, George Iii, George, George Iv, Queen Victoria, Victoria
Derivative terms: Hanoverian
Definition of Hanover
1. Proper noun. British family that ruled from 1714 to 1901, more commonly known as the Georgian, Regency and Victorian periods. ¹
2. Proper noun. A city of northwest Germany, capital of (pedlink Lower Saxony). ¹
3. Proper noun. (historical) The former (pedlink Kingdom of Hanover), now part of (pedlink Lower Saxony), Germany. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hanover
Literary usage of Hanover
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"If Munich was a pleasant place for a musician of genius, hanover was not far behind
... The Court of hanover was renowned for its magnificence and courtesy, ..."
2. Annual Register (1764)
"... a farmer of Paris, arriving at hanover fome days before ... of hanover, for
all the Aims which they (hill have received ; to bring, in like marner, ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In the years immediately after its incorporation in 1833 hanover College introduced
... The village of hanover, the principal settlement of the township, ..."
4. Europe Since 1815 by Charles Downer Hazen (1910)
"hanover. The Radicals and the Reform Bill. the connection between England and
hanover, which had existed since the elector of hanover had become king of ..."
5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1864)
"THE BATTLE AT hanover. At about midday, General Kilpatrick, with his command,
... On the Saturday previous to arriving in hanover, one hundred and fifty of ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"Saxony was obliged to yield in May, 1834; and ten years later the Zollverein
included practically the whole of Germany except the Austrian dominion, hanover ..."
7. Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman: Being the Reflections and Reminiscences by Otto Bismarck, Arthur John Butler (1899)
"I had actively laboured to win over hanover and my friend Count Platen to this
end, and there was every prospect that at least a treaty of neutrality would ..."
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