hastings

Noun hastings has 3 senses

• hastings(n = noun.person) thomas hastings - United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929);
is a kind of architect, designer

• hastings(n = noun.location) - a town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where the battle of Hastings took place;
is a kind of town
is a part of east sussex

• hastings(n = noun.act) battle of hastings - 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;
is a kind of pitched battle
is a part of norman conquest