Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to Spain or its people or culture.
- adj. Of or relating to the Spanish language.
- n. The Romance language of the largest part of Spain and most of Central and South America.
- n. The people of Spain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to Spain or a Spaniard or Spaniards.
- The long-billed curlew, Numenius longirostris.
- A preparation of Spanish flies; cantharides used as a vesicant.
- n. The language of Spain, one of the Romance languages, but much mixed with Other elements and altered by them. Of its many dialects, that of Castile became the standard form in cultivated speech and literature, the language of which is hence distinctively called
Castilian . It is the prevailing language in Mexico, Central America, and those countries of South America which were settled by Spaniards. - n. A white-faced black Spanish fowl. See Spanish fowl, under I.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to Spain.
- adj. Of or pertaining to the people or culture of Spain.
- adj. Of or pertaining to the Spanish language.
- n. A Romance language primarily spoken in Spain and in the Americas.
- n. People of Spain, collectively.
- n. US People of Hispanic origin.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
- n. The language of Spain.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Spain or the people of Spain
- n. the people of Spain
- n. the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain
Etymologies
- From Middle English Spainish, Spanish, from Spain + -ish. (Wiktionary)
- Alteration (influenced by Latin Hispānia, Spain) of Middle English Spainish, from Spaine, Spain, from Old French Espaigne; see Spaniard. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“SPANISH CONVERSATION CLUB, for age 16 and older, practice Spanish with peers. 7: 30 p.m. Mondays through August, Hyattsville Library, 6532 Adelphi Rd. Free.”
The Washington Post: Prince George's County community calendar, July 15-22, 2010
“SPANISH CONVERSATION CLUB, for age 16 and older, practice your Spanish with peers. 7: 30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 23 and 30, Hyattsville Library, 6532 Adelphi Rd. Free.”
The Washington Post: Prince George's County community calendar, Aug. 12-19, 2010
“SPANISH CULTURE CLASSES, for adults who wish to improve Spanish conversational skills, Elsa Rivera-Sinclair leads a wide-ranging discussion on Latin American culture. 2-3: 30 p.m.,”
The Washington Post: Montgomery County community calendar, May 6-13, 2010
“SPANISH CHAT, practice conversational Spanish with others.”
The Washington Post: Prince William County community calendar, May 6 to 13, 2010
“RAMOS: (SPEAKING SPANISH) Right now, there are more than 30 million people in this country who speak Spanish.”
“But I was going to say, besides (SPEAKING IN SPANISH), he said something in Spanish?”
“SANCHEZ: But do you want to fire two guys working in a kitchen somewhere, who are washing dishes for minimum wage who happens to say to the other one [SPANISH] throw the towel at me please, and the boss comes by and has the right to say, you're fired, you just spoke Spanish.”
“There's usually a spanish language soap opera, talk show think Jerry Springer in Spanish - it's a hoot or a game show tuned into.”
“Spain_, _Vocabulary of the Arabic Words in Spanish_, and his _Catalogue of Spanish MSS. in the British Museum_ are known wherever the language is known or studied.”
“BODEGA SPANISH CARTA GENERAL (MAP), showing the Spanish discoveries on the Coast up to 1791, and also a PORTRAIT of BARRINGTON.”
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