Hansard
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EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Hanse (“merchant guild; the Hanseatic League”) + -ard (suffix forming agent nouns, especially pejorative ones).[1]
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhænsəd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhænsɚd/
- Hyphenation: Han‧sard
Proper nounEdit
Hansard
- A surname.
NounEdit
Hansard (plural Hansards)
TranslationsEdit
member of a Hanse, or a resident of a Hanse town
Etymology 2Edit
From Hansard, the surname of Thomas Curson Hansard (1776–1833),[2] an English printer who inherited the business of printing reports of parliamentary debates and proceedings from his father Luke Hansard (1752–1828). T. C. Hansard added his name of the title of the reports from 1829, and from about 1859 they began to be referred to generically as “Hansards”.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhænsəd/, /ˈhænsɑːd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhænsɚd/
Audio (AU) (file) - Hyphenation: Han‧sard
NounEdit
Hansard (plural Hansards)
- (chiefly Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) The official report of debates and other proceedings in the British and some Commonwealth parliaments.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
official report of debates and other proceedings in the British and some Commonwealth parliaments
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “Hansard, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1898.
- ^ “Hansard, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1898; “Hansard” (US) / “Hansard” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
Further readingEdit
- Hansard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Hansard (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia