Hanseatic League
English
proper noun
Definitions
- (historical) The commercial and military alliance of Low German merchant guilds and privileged market towns which dominated trade along the coasts of northern Europe from the mid-12th to mid-17th centuries.
Etymology
Compound from English Hanseatic + English league.
Origin
English
league
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Cactus League English
- Canadian Football League English
- Grapefruit League English
- Hanseatic English
- beer league English
- enleague English
- inleague English
- interleague English
- intraleague English
- league English
- leaguewide English
- leaguist English
- non-league English
- nonleague English
- superleague English
- リーグ Japanese
- liege Middle English
- ligi Swahili
- 리그 Korean