The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hanseatic \Han`se*at"ic\ (h[a^]n`s[-e]*[a^]t"[i^]k), a. Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy.
Hanseatic league. See under 2d Hanse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Hanseatic League, medieval confederation of North German towns, from Medieval Latin Hanseaticus, from Middle Low German hanse "fellowship, merchants' guild," from Old High German hansa "military troop, band, company." Related to Gothic hansa "troop, company, multitude," Old English hos "attendants, retinue." Middle English borrowed hanse from Old French hanse and Medieval Latin hansa (both from Old High German) in sense of "a company of merchants" (late 12c.). Compare hanshus "guild hall" (12c.).
Wikipedia
Hanseatic may refer to:
- The Hanseatic League, a trading alliance in northern Europe in existence between the 13th and 17th centuries
- The Hanseatic (class), synonym for upper-class people of the free imperial cities Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck since mid-17th century after the end of the Hanseatic league
- The Hanseatic Parliament, an association of business chambers around the Baltic Sea, founded in the early 1990s
- Hanseatic Tours, a German cruise line that operated 1991–1997
- SS Hanseatic (1930), an ocean liner operated by Hamburg Atlantic Line 1958–1966
- SS Hanseatic (1964), an ocean liner/cruise ship operated by German Atlantic Line 1967–1973
- SS Hanseatic (1969),a cruise ship operated by German Atlantic Line 1973
- MS Hanseatic, a cruise ship operated by Hanseatic Tours 1993–1997 and by Hapag–Lloyd Cruises 1997 onwards
Usage examples of "hanseatic".
Jack, Ben, George, and Christopher, after the first four Great Kings of the Terran Hanseatic League.
He had seen significant changes in the Hanseatic League during his reign, but little of it had been his own doing.
Although Hanseatic envoys insisted that priests must serve the needs of humanity, Father Idriss and Mother Alexa had no interest in expanding their personal power.
He is reluctant to give Theroc a greater status than other colonies in the Terran Hanseatic League.
Do you believe the Hanseatic League means to use it as a weapon against us?
Also, the Terran Hanseatic League has bargained hard and negotiated well, and they have.
The extended clans operated on the fringe of the Hanseatic League, aloof and independent.
Within a few days the facility would be brought online, and they would begin collecting ekti for the Terran Hanseatic League.
Terran Hanseatic League, this torch will stand as a symbol of what we have accomplished.
The Chairman of the Terran Hanseatic League can find some way to make an exception.
Since normal hours meant nothing to the Chairman of the Terran Hanseatic League, Sarein came to him in his private rooms before dawn.
Anton Colicos, some much-delayed news arrived for you on Ildira, a report from the Terran Hanseatic League.
You and the rest of the Terran Hanseatic League can expect no further deliveries from Roamer merchants.
Terran Hanseatic League has clearly overstepped its bounds, and the Ildiran Empire has a right to take any appropriate action.
The Mage-Imperator wished he could simply release all the human breeding prisoners and return them to the Terran Hanseatic League.