Synonyms:
Hanover, House_of_Hanover, Hanoverian_line
Meaning: the English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria)
Synonyms:
Hannover, Hanover
Meaning: a port city in northwestern Germany; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League
Usage examples
Are the streets gone? Orange-Tree Lane is at the head of Hanover Street, near Pemberton's Hill." "There is no such lane now." "Madam! you cannot be serious.
The sale of the girl's person is blessed by a Bishop at St. George's, Hanover Square, and next year you read, 'At Roehampton, on Saturday, the Lady Blanche Pump, of a son and heir.
The divisions of Whig and Tory then shook England to her very centre, and a powerful party, engaged in the Jacobite interest, menaced the dynasty of Hanover, which had been just established on the throne.