Hastings

proper nouncommon in dialogue

//ˈheɪ.stɪŋz//

A place name, including: A town and borough in East Sussex, England.

proper noun

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A place name, including: A town and borough in East Sussex, England.
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A place name, including: A hamlet in Ashill parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3116).
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A place name, including: A place in Canada: A community in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.
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A place name, including: A place in Canada: A community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
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A place name, including: A place in Canada: A community in Trent Hills municipality, Northumberland County, Ontario.
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A place name, including: A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in St. Johns County, Florida.
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A place name, including: A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana.
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A place name, including: A number of places in the United States: A minor city in Mills County, Iowa.
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A place name, including: A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Barry County, Michigan.
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A place name, including: A number of places in the United States: A township in Barry County, Michigan.
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A place name, including: A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Dakota County, Minnesota, located in Dakota County and Washington County.
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A place name, including: A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Adams County, Nebraska.
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A place name, including: A number of places in the United States: A town in Oswego County, New York, named after Hastings Curtiss.
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A place name, including: A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Barnes County, North Dakota.
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A place name, including: A number of places in the United States: A town in Jefferson County, Oklahoma.
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A place name, including: A number of places in the United States: A borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
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A place name, including: A village and beach resort in Christ Church parish, Barbados.
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A place name, including: A town in Western Area Rural District, Sierra Leone.
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A place name, including: A neighbourhood of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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A place name, including: A place in Australia: A rural locality in Huon Valley council area, Tasmania.
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A place name, including: A place in Australia: A town in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Victoria.
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A place name, including: A place in Australia: A river in New South Wales, which flows into the Tasman Sea at Port Macquarie; named after Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings; in full, the Hastings River.
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A place name, including: A city in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
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A habitational surname from Old English.
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A surname originating as a patronymic.

Etymology

The placename in England is derived from the Old English tribal name Hæstingas (“Hæsta's people, the family/followers of Hæsta”), which was later transferred to their settlement. The family name has two possible sources: * from the place name * a patronymic surname derived from the Anglo-Norman personal name Hasten(c), Hastang The later place names in other countries are named either after people with that family name, or after the town of Hastings in England.

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Hastings · A place name, including: A town and borough in East Sussex, England.

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