Hanau

American  

[hah-nou] / ˈhɑ naʊ /

noun

1. a city in Hesse, central Germany.

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Hanau British  

/ ˈhaːnau /

noun

1. a city in central Germany, in Hesse east of Frankfurt am Main: a centre of the jewellery industry. Pop: 88 897 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

On the trading floor of precious-metals group Heraeus in Hanau, Germany, Dominik Sperzel is fielding calls from investors hunting for silver bars—ranging from the smallest, one troy ounce, to the largest, 15 kilos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

Headquartered in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Gauss Fusion's roadmap sees the company opening fusion power plants by the beginning of the 2040s.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2023

Germany will deploy extra police to protect mosques, railway stations, airports and other sensitive sites because of a "very high" far-right threat following the Hanau killings, the interior minister says.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2020

“To put it plainly: Those who were murdered here in Hanau were not foreign,” said Claus Kaminsky, the city’s mayor.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2020

The Count of Hanau seems to be much older than he is in reality.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von