Hants

See also: hants, hánts, and ha'nts

English

Etymology

Hants is the abbreviated form of Hampshire. The abbreviated form is derived from Old English Hantum plus scir (meaning a district governed from the settlement now known as Southampton) and the Anglo-Saxons called it Hamtunschire. At the time of the Domesday Book (1086) this was compressed to Hantescire.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhænts/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ænts

Proper noun

Hants

  1. Short for Hampshire., England

Derived terms

See also

References
  1. “About Hampshire”, in Hantsweb‎, 2016 September 8 (last accessed), archived from the original on 4 March 2012

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