Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hastings

3 senses of hastings

Sense 1
Hastings, Thomas Hastings -- (United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929))
       INSTANCE OF=> architect, designer -- (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

Sense 2
Hastings -- (a town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where the battle of Hastings took place)
       INSTANCE OF=> town -- (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city; "they drive through town on their way to work")

Sense 3
Hastings, battle of Hastings -- (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)
       INSTANCE OF=> pitched battle -- (a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place)