Hanse

American  

[hans] / hæns /

noun

1. Hansa.

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Hanse British  

/ ˈhænsə, hæns, -zə /

noun

1. a medieval guild of merchants

2. a fee paid by the new members of a medieval trading guild

3. 1. another name for the Hanseatic League

   2. ( as modifier )

      a Hanse town

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Etymology

Origin of Hanse

C12: of Germanic origin; compare Old High German hansa, Old English hōs troop

Example Sentences

As Hanse sifted through archives, he soon made a surprising discovery: rare aerial photographs of Aronimink’s early days that diverged from old drawings of the grounds.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

When Gil Hanse set out to renovate Aronimink Golf Club outside Philadelphia he made it his mission to restore it to its original, legendary designs from the 1920s.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Hanse has also removed bunkers from the back right of the green.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

“It’s been a crazy year for Colonial, obviously, but the restoration Gil Hanse and his team did, I mean it’s unbelievable how fast it came together,” Palmer said.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2024

The manner of living in this City is different from that of all the Hanse Towns.

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