Hastings
pronunciation
How to pronounce Hastings in British English:
UK ['heɪstɪŋz]
How to pronounce Hastings in American English:
US ['heɪstɪŋz]
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- Noun:
- United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)
- a town in East Sussex just south of the place where the Battle of Hastings took place
- 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
Word Origin
- Hastings
- town in Sussex, site of the great battle in the Norman conquest of England (Oct. 14, 1066), Old English Hæstingas "The Hastings; settlement of the family or followers of a man called *Hæsta;" literally "Hæsta's People." The Hæstingas were an important tribal group referred to in an 8th cent. Northumbrian chronicle as the gens Hestingorum which seems to have kept a separate identity as late as the early 11th cent. ["Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names"]
Example
- 1. The hastings gallery differs from other recent ventures .
- 2. They decided to wait for hastings .
- 3. Hastings killed the project and disbanded the team .
- 4. In half an hour , hastings had completely reinvented netflix 's strategy .
- 5. Whether hastings cops to it or not , that day could be coming soon .