Hanover
Americannoun
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a member of the royal family that ruled Great Britain under that name from 1714 to 1901.
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a former province in NW Germany; now a district in Lower Saxony. 14,944 sq. mi. (38,705 sq. km).
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a city in and the capital of Lower Saxony, in N central Germany.
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a city in S Pennsylvania.
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a town in SE Massachusetts.
noun
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a princely house of Germany (1692–1815), the head of which succeeded to the British throne as George I in 1714
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the royal house of Britain (1714–1901)
noun
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"The colleagues from Hanover and I used various methods to isolate the particles from Ukrainian soil samples and attach them to tungsten electrodes," Weissenborn explains.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
In woodsy Hanover, N.H., the computer-science department at Dartmouth College, which has about 4,700 undergraduate students, went through its own computer-science boom time in the 2010s.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The company is also considering the future of its Emden, Zwickau, Hanover and Neckarsulm plants, where it has said production capacity exceeds demand.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
That aircraft was then hit by an unidentified object in mid-air before it landed safely in Hanover, where "minor damage" to the aircraft was discovered.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
I followed Hanover Street to Dock Square, musing upon stratagems.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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