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hastings

/ˈheɪstɪŋz/

hastings noun: early fruit or vegetables, especially peas. Also the plural of hasting.

Noun

hastings pl (normally plural, singular hasting)

  1. (dated, plural, plural-normally) Early fruit or vegetables, especially peas.
    • The large white and green Hastings are tender , and not to be set till the cold is over , and then not very thick , for they spread much and mount high , and therefore require the help of tall Sticks1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Hastings

IPA/ˈheɪ.stɪŋz/

Hastings

  1. A town and borough in East Sussex, England.
  2. A hamlet in Ashill parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3116).
  3. A community in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.
  4. A community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
  5. A community in Trent Hills municipality, Northumberland County, Ontario.
  6. A census-designated place in St. Johns County, Florida.
  7. An unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana.
  8. A minor city in Mills County, Iowa.
  9. A city, the county seat of Barry County, Michigan.
  10. A township in Barry County, Michigan.
  11. A city, the county seat of Dakota County, Minnesota, located in Dakota County and Washington County.
  12. A city, the county seat of Adams County, Nebraska.
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  1. A town in Oswego County, New York, named after Hastings Curtiss.
  2. An unincorporated community in Barnes County, North Dakota.
  3. A town in Jefferson County, Oklahoma.
  4. A borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
  5. A village and beach resort in Christ Church parish, Barbados.
  6. A town in Western Area Rural District, Sierra Leone.
  7. A neighbourhood of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
  8. A rural locality in Huon Valley council area, Tasmania.
  9. A town in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Victoria.
  10. A river in New South Wales, which flows into the Tasman Sea at Port Macquarie; named after Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings; in full, the Hastings River.
  11. A city in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
  12. A habitational surname from Old English.
  13. A surname originating as a patronymic.

Also used as

hastings is also the plural of hasting.

hastings meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

hastings in Hindi

हैस्टिंग्स

hastings in Tamil

ஹேஸ்டிங்ஸ்

hastings in Urdu

ہیسٹنگز, ہیسٹنگس

hastings in Bengali

হ্যাস্টিংস
More languagesFewer languages
hastings in Odia
ହ୍ଯ଼ାସ୍ଟିଙ୍ଗସ୍, ହ୍ଯ଼ାସ୍ଟିଙ୍ଗସ

Forms of hastings

singularhasting

Origin of hastings

From haste.

The placename in England is derived from the Old English tribal name Hæstingas (“Hæsta's people, the family/followers of Hæsta”), which was later transferred to their settlement. The family name has two possible sources: * from the place name * a patronymic surname derived from the Anglo-Norman personal name Hasten(c), Hastang The later place names in other countries are named either after people with that family name, or after the town of Hastings in England.

Words formed from hastings

Questions about hastings

What does hastings mean?
Hastings means early fruit or vegetables, especially peas.
What is hastings in Hindi?
Hastings in Hindi is हैस्टिंग्स. See Hastings meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is hastings?
Hastings can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hastings?
Hastings is pronounced /ˈheɪstɪŋz/.

Words near hastings in the dictionary

  1. hastily
  2. Hastinapura
  3. hastiness
  4. hastinesses
  5. hasting
  6. hastings
  7. Hastings County
  8. Hastings Point
  9. hastingsite
  10. hastingsites
  11. hastingsitic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hastings (page history and authors); Hastings (page history and authors); hastings (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hastings (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hastings (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hastings (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hastings (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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