HANSEATIC LEAGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hanseatic League mean? 

• HANSEATIC LEAGUE (noun)
  The noun HANSEATIC LEAGUE has 1 sense:

1. a commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas; formed in 1241 and most influential in the 14th century when it included over 100 towns and functioned as an independent political power; the last official assembly was held in 1669

  Familiarity information: HANSEATIC LEAGUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HANSEATIC LEAGUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas; formed in 1241 and most influential in the 14th century when it included over 100 towns and functioned as an independent political power; the last official assembly was held in 1669

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Hanseatic League" is a kind of...):

confederacy; confederation; federation (a union of political organizations)

Meronyms (members of "Hanseatic League"):

Bergen (a port city in southwestern Norway)

Bremen (a city of northwestern Germany linked by the Weser River to the port of Bremerhaven and the North Sea; in the Middle Ages it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League)

Dortmund (an industrial city in northwestern Germany; flourished from the 13th to 17th century as a member of the Hanseatic League)

Cologne; Koln (a commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River; flourished during the 15th century as a member of the Hanseatic League)

Halle; Halle-an-der-Saale (a city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River; a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th centuries)

Hamburg (a port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League)

Hannover; Hanover (a port city in northwestern Germany; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League)

Lubeck (a city in northwestern Germany and an important Baltic port; a leading member of the Hanseatic League)

Rostock (a city in northeastern Germany near the Baltic sea; an important member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century)

Bruges; City of Bridges (a city in northwestern Belgium that is connected by canal to the North Sea; in the 13th century it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League; the old city (known as the City of Bridges) is a popular tourist attraction)

Danzig; Gdansk (a port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea; a member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century)

Tartu (a city of southeastern Estonia that was a member of the Hanseatic League)

capital of Latvia; Riga (a port city on the Gulf of Riga that is the capital and largest city of Latvia; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League)

Klaipeda; Memel (a city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea; formerly an important trading town of the Hanseatic League)