Hastings - Definition
hastings
n 1: United States architect who formed and important
architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)
[syn: Hastings, Thomas Hastings]
2: a town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where
the battle of Hastings took place
3: 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 [syn: Hastings,
battle of Hastings]