Hansa
- proper noun
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Hansa Rostock
- Schalke let a win slip when goalkeeper Manuel Neuer's blunder led to a 1-1 draw against Hansa Rostock.
Examples
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As Bono has it, while outside they were tearing down the Berlin Wall, U2 were building their own wall inside Hansa.
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It was one of the harshest Berlin winters; their recording studio, Hansa, was a former SS ballroom, their hotel was rubbish, and they had no songs.
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For Edge, U2 were over the moment they walked into Hansa—or, at least, Rattle and Hum U2 were over.
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In 1952, he co-founded the Hansa Gallery, an important artists' cooperative in New York.
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As Bono has it, while outside they were tearing down the Berlin Wall, U2 were building their own wall inside Hansa.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hansa as the name of the football club comes from the same old German word hansa meaning 'group' or 'league' of towns and traders, and Rostock was part of that trading past. So the club name celebrates the city's history and community pride.
