"husting" meaning in All languages combined

See husting on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: hustings [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English husting, from Old English hūsting, borrowed from Old Norse húsþing (“house assembly”), from hús (“house”) + þing (“council, meeting”), equivalent to house + thing. Cognate with Icelandic húsþing (“assembly”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|husting}} Middle English husting, {{inh|en|ang|hūsting}} Old English hūsting, {{der|en|non|húsþing|t=house assembly}} Old Norse húsþing (“house assembly”), {{m|non|hús||house}} hús (“house”), {{m|non|þing||council, meeting}} þing (“council, meeting”), {{af|en|house|thing|nocat=1}} house + thing, {{cog|is|húsþing|t=assembly}} Icelandic húsþing (“assembly”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} husting (plural hustings)
  1. A platform where candidates in an election give speeches.
    Sense id: en-husting-en-noun-Ry0UP7tH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 57 43
  2. (historical) An assembly, especially one of the retainers of a ruler. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-husting-en-noun-l0eizgz3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: hustings, thing, folkmoot

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for husting meaning in All languages combined (2.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "husting"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English husting",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "hūsting"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English hūsting",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "húsþing",
        "t": "house assembly"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse húsþing (“house assembly”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "hús",
        "3": "",
        "4": "house"
      },
      "expansion": "hús (“house”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "þing",
        "3": "",
        "4": "council, meeting"
      },
      "expansion": "þing (“council, meeting”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "house",
        "3": "thing",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "house + thing",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "húsþing",
        "t": "assembly"
      },
      "expansion": "Icelandic húsþing (“assembly”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English husting, from Old English hūsting, borrowed from Old Norse húsþing (“house assembly”), from hús (“house”) + þing (“council, meeting”), equivalent to house + thing. Cognate with Icelandic húsþing (“assembly”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hustings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "husting (plural hustings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hustings"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "thing"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "folkmoot"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A platform where candidates in an election give speeches."
      ],
      "id": "en-husting-en-noun-Ry0UP7tH",
      "links": [
        [
          "platform",
          "platform"
        ],
        [
          "candidate",
          "candidate"
        ],
        [
          "election",
          "election"
        ],
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, John Hamilton Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England: c. 900-1216, page 819",
          "text": "In the Anglo-Norman period we hear of a sale of land taking place ‘in the presence of the whole husting of London, in the House of Alfwin son of Leofstan’ and of land deraigned ‘by judgment of the husting’.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An assembly, especially one of the retainers of a ruler."
      ],
      "id": "en-husting-en-noun-l0eizgz3",
      "links": [
        [
          "assembly",
          "assembly"
        ],
        [
          "retainer",
          "retainer"
        ],
        [
          "ruler",
          "ruler"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) An assembly, especially one of the retainers of a ruler."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "husting"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms derived from Old Norse",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "husting"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English husting",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "hūsting"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English hūsting",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "húsþing",
        "t": "house assembly"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse húsþing (“house assembly”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "hús",
        "3": "",
        "4": "house"
      },
      "expansion": "hús (“house”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "þing",
        "3": "",
        "4": "council, meeting"
      },
      "expansion": "þing (“council, meeting”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "house",
        "3": "thing",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "house + thing",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "húsþing",
        "t": "assembly"
      },
      "expansion": "Icelandic húsþing (“assembly”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English husting, from Old English hūsting, borrowed from Old Norse húsþing (“house assembly”), from hús (“house”) + þing (“council, meeting”), equivalent to house + thing. Cognate with Icelandic húsþing (“assembly”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hustings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "husting (plural hustings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hustings"
    },
    {
      "word": "thing"
    },
    {
      "word": "folkmoot"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A platform where candidates in an election give speeches."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "platform",
          "platform"
        ],
        [
          "candidate",
          "candidate"
        ],
        [
          "election",
          "election"
        ],
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, John Hamilton Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England: c. 900-1216, page 819",
          "text": "In the Anglo-Norman period we hear of a sale of land taking place ‘in the presence of the whole husting of London, in the House of Alfwin son of Leofstan’ and of land deraigned ‘by judgment of the husting’.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An assembly, especially one of the retainers of a ruler."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "assembly",
          "assembly"
        ],
        [
          "retainer",
          "retainer"
        ],
        [
          "ruler",
          "ruler"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) An assembly, especially one of the retainers of a ruler."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "husting"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.