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Spanish

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People who come from Spain
  • noun
  • /ˈspænɪʃ/
: españoles
  • The Spanish have a rich cultural heritage that includes art, music, and cuisine.

He got arrested from a whole team of Italians, Spanish, Portuguese.

Examples

  • It was discovered when the Spanish came to the Americas.

  • People still think of themselves as French, German, Italian, Dutch and Spanish, not European.

  • So we have no trouble understanding the Spanish in the novel.

  • There were very few Latin American or Spanish speakers in China at the time.

  • Oh, first you'll probably wonder why the Spanish Association.

  • Even worse, in the eyes of some Spanish leaders, was the loss in prestige.

  • The Indians, Italians and the Spanish, we love using our hands.

  • He got arrested from a whole team of Italians, Spanish, Portuguese.

  • Ibn Battuta saw their Greeks, Spanish, Jews and Indians.

  • Many Spanish people enjoy celebrating their traditional festivals throughout the year.

Synonyms

Spanish people
vsSpanish
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People from Spain who have the same nationality and culture

is the same collective sense without stressing ethnic identity

Compounds

Able to speak or write Spanish

A language spoken in Spain and many countries in Latin America

A court set up by the Spanish kings to find and punish people for not following Catholic beliefs

A civil war in Spain from 1936 to 1939 when General Franco overthrew the government

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A 1898 war between the United States and Spain that gave the US Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines

A 1898 war between the United States and Spain that gives U.S. territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

People from Spain who have the same nationality and culture

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A small bright green beetle from southern Europe that makes a liquid causing blisters

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A plant with long grey-green strands like hair that hang from tree branches

A large group of ships sent by Spain in 1588 to invade England that the English navy defeats

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A person in the United States who speaks Spanish as their first language or whose family speaks Spanish

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A spicy rice dish cooked with tomatoes, onions, and peppers served as a side

Spanish peseta
  • Archaic
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Money that people used in Spain before the euro

Spanish spoken in Mexico with its own words and sounds

A large mild onion with sweet, juicy layers that you eat raw in salads and on sandwiches

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A large sea fish people eat found in warm coastal waters

A red powder from Spanish peppers used to add mild, sweet or smoky flavor to food

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Meat from a large sea fish eaten as food

Spanish torture
  • Informal
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A joking way to describe something very annoying or upsetting to experience

A major European war from 1701 to 1714 fought over who should become king of Spain, involving many European countries

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A small tree that loses its leaves with low branches and wide limbs in Texas and southern Oklahoma

A former Spanish colony in northwest Africa now called Western Sahara

A form of Spanish spoken by Jews from Spain, often written in Hebrew letters

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A plant with long pointed leaves like swords and clusters of white flowers

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A tall thornless shrub from the Mediterranean with sweet-smelling yellow flowers and flexible stems used to make baskets

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A European variety of leek with a mild taste used in cooking

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A tropical American tree with wood that smells nice and is often used to make cigar boxes

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A plant from the western Mediterranean with purple flowers that grows from a bulb

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A small green fruit with thin skin and sweet juicy pulp you eat like a grape

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A desert plant with stiff, sharp leaves and white flower clusters

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A plant with hooked seeds that stick to clothes or animal fur

A sea battle in 1588 when a small English fleet beats a large Spanish fleet sent to invade England

A tropical American tree with fragrant, lightweight wood used for cigar boxes

A large tree that has sweet edible nuts and gives shade

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A large tropical American tree with strong, durable wood and creamy white flowers

A tropical tree that produces small green fruits with sweet, juicy flesh

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A shrub with many bright yellow flowers that grows in warm places

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A small tropical fish with yellow stripes that makes low sounds by grinding its throat teeth

An old name for Equatorial Guinea used when Spain ruled it

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A dense upright shrub with many white or pink flowers that grows naturally in western Spain and Portugal

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A tropical tree that has small green fruits with sweet juicy pulp

A hunting dog from Spain that points at birds

A plant from the Mediterranean whose seeds swell in water and ease constipation

A yellow-flowered plant that people grow for its sweet edible roots and leaves

A small tree from Madagascar that makes apple-shaped fruit

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A tropical American plant with a strong, unpleasant smell

A low European bush with leaves in groups of three and pale yellow flowers

Surface Forms

Spanish singular
Spanish plural

Morphology

Spanish = Spain (transparent) = Spain + ish

Formed by straightforward addition of the productive demonym/adjective suffix '-ish' to 'Spain', meaning 'related to or from Spain'.

Etymology

Spanish comes from the old place name Hispania, the Roman name for the land we now call Spain. So Spanish originally meant 'from Hispania', meaning a person from Spain.