Hanover definition

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British ruling family (1714–1901) whose last monarch was Victoria (reigned 1837–1901).
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A former kingdom and province of northwest Germany. It was an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire from 1692 to 1805. The kingdom lasted from 1815 to 1866, when Hanover became a province of Prussia (later Germany).
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A city of northwest Germany southeast of Bremen. Chartered in 1241, it became part of the Hanseatic League in 1386. Hanover was badly damaged during World War II but has been extensively rebuilt.
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(person, proper) Name of the ruling family of England (1714-1901), founded by George I, originally Elector of Hanover.
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(place) Former province (1886-1945) of Prussia, in NW Germany: earlier, an electorate (1692-1815) & a kingdom (1815-86): now part of the German state of Lower Saxony.
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(place) City in NW Germany: capital of Lower Saxony.
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British family that ruled from 1714 to 1901, more commonly known as the Georgian, Regency and Victorian periods.
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A city of northwest Germany, capital of Lower Saxony.
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(historical) The former Kingdom of Hanover, now part of Lower Saxony, Germany.
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Alternative Form of hanover - hannover

Hanover Sentence Examples

  • In 1836 he was appointed to the chair of chemistry in the medical faculty at Göttingen, holding also the office of inspector-general of pharmacies in the kingdom of Hanover.

  • When he died three years later Lauenburg passed to his nephew, George Louis, elector of Hanover, afterwards king of Great Britain as George I., whose rights were recognized by the emperor Charles VI.

  • It reverted to Hanover after the battle of Leipzig in 1813, and in 1816 was ceded to Prussia, the greater part of it being at once transferred by her to Denmark in exchange for Swedish Pomerania.

  • He was born at Hanover on the 10th of March 1772.

  • He went first to Hanover, and afterwards to Cassel to study architecture, for which he seems to have had little inclination.

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