Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A native or inhabitant of Spain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A native or a citizen of Spain, a kingdom of southwestern Europe, forming the greater part of the Iberian peninsula; in general, a member of the Spanish race, of mixed Celtic, Latin, Gothic, Arabic, and other elements, but now ranked as one of the Latin peoples.
- n. [lowercase] Same as jack-spaniard.
- n. In New Zealand, same as spear-grass, 3.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A native or inhabitant of Spain.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a native or inhabitant of Spain
Etymologies
- From Middle English Spaignarde, from Old French Espaignard, from Espaigne. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French Espaniard, from Espaigne, Spain, from Latin Hispānia. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“After seeing that recent shot of him in a leg-locking horizontal clutch with Penélope Cruz on a beach in the Maldives, who could deny the Spaniard is a sex symbol?”
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“It has always been said that the Spaniard is an individualist and rarely does he unite with his colleagues in any collective action.”
“Race-savvy and cunning, Sanchez could become a last-minute replacement for team leader Freire if the Spaniard is not quite feeling up to the job.”
“And the Spaniard is reveling that Armstrong will be looking up to him on the podium.”
“A: A Spaniard is a person who spends all their life trying to learn English.”
“The top-ranked Spaniard is "stuggling with ongoing knee problems and has been advised to rest by doctors," tournament organizers said in a statement.”
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“Do they both count as white, even though the Spaniard is part Arabic and the Russian was born in Asia?”
“The 33-year-old Spaniard is riding in his eighth Tour, and this is his first yellow jersey.”
“If this wasn't a contradiction in terms one could say that the aspiration of the typical Spaniard is a strange, prohibitionist and dictatorial country of concordant individualists.”
“The longing of the typical Spaniard is that everyone, more than uniting with him, imitates him, either by free will or by force.”
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