Hanover meaning

hăn'ō'vər
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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Name of the ruling family of England (1714-1901), founded by George I, originally Elector of Hanover.
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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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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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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.

  • The trouble was again revived by the repeal in 1790 of the confirming act 2 Several Scotch-Irish families from Lancaster (disambiguation)|Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, accepted Connecticut titles and settled at Hanover under Captain Lazarus Stewart.

  • (Hanover, 1866); Simeon of Durham (" Rolls " series), ed.

  • For the kingdom of Hanover; maintained.

  • Pertz, Geschichte der merowingischen Hausmeier (Hanover, 1819); H.

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