Hansard

English
WOTD – 6 November 2019

Etymology 1

Hanse (“merchant guild; the Hanseatic League”) + -ard (suffix forming agent nouns, especially pejorative ones).[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Hansard

  1. A surname​.

Noun

Hansard (plural Hansards)

  1. (historical) A member of a Hanse (“merchant guild”), or a resident of a Hanse town.
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Etymology 2

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”.

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhænsəd/, /ˈhænsɑːd/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhænsɚd/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Hyphenation: Han‧sard

Noun

Hansard (plural Hansards)

  1. (chiefly Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) The official report of debates and other proceedings in the British and some Commonwealth parliaments.
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References
  1. “Hansard, n.1”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1898.
  2. “Hansard, n.2”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1898; “Hansard” (US) / “Hansard” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

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