Hastings (n.)

  1. United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)

    [ Syn: hastings , thomas hastings ]

  2. a town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where the battle of Hastings took place

    [ Syn: hastings ]

  3. the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest

    [ Syn: hastings , battle of hastings ]

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