hustings

  • 1hustings — ⇒HUSTINGS, subst. masc. plur. HIST. [En Angleterre] Estrade d où les candidats à la Chambre des communes faisaient autrefois leur profession de foi. À gauche du spectateur, la taverne de Malborough (...); à droite, les hustings ou gradins adossés …

    Encyclopédie Universelle

  • 2Hustings — Hus tings, n. pl. [OE. husting an assembly, coucil, AS. h?sting; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. h?s?ing; h?s home + ?ing thing, assembly, meeting; akin to Dan. & Sw. ting, E. thing. See {House}, and {Thing}.] 1. A court formerly held in several… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 3hustings — O.E. husting meeting, court, tribunal, from O.N. husðing council, from hus house (see HOUSE (Cf. house)) + ðing assembly (see THING (Cf. thing)); so called because it was a meeting of the men who formed the household of a nobleman or king. The… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 4hustings — ► NOUN (treated as pl. or sing. ) 1) a meeting at which candidates in an election address potential voters. 2) (the hustings) political campaigning; electioneering. ORIGIN Old Norse, household assembly held by a leader , from hús house + thing… …

    English terms dictionary

  • 5Hustings — (engl., spr. höstings) heißt bei Parlamentswahlen die Erhöhung oder Bühne, auf der die Bewerber erscheinen und Reden an die Wähler halten …

    Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • 6Hustings — (engl., spr. höß ), die Rednerbühne, von wo die Kandidaten zu den Wählern sprechen …

    Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • 7hustings — [hus′tiŋz] pl.n. [ME husting < OE < ON hūsthing, lit., house council < hūs, a house + thing, assembly (see THING1): orig., a lord s household assembly as distinct from a general assembly] [usually with sing. v.] 1. Obs. a) a deliberative …

    English World dictionary

  • 8hustings — hus|tings [ˈhʌstıŋz] n [: Old English; Origin: husting council meeting , from Old Norse, from hus house + thing council, assembly ] the hustings the process of trying to persuade people to vote for you by making speeches etc at/on the hustings ▪… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 9hustings — noun the hustings BrE the process of trying to persuade people to vote for you by making speeches etc: be at/on the hustings: All the candidates are out on the hustings …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 10hustings — noun /ˈhʌstɪŋz/ a) a platform where candidates in an election give speeches I now mounted the hustings, and, without any regard to decency or modesty, made as emphatical a speech in favour of the king as before I had done against him. b) an… …

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