Spanish Civil War
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4.4
- proper noun
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Guerra Civil Española
- During the Spanish Civil War, the Spanish government asked Calder to contribute a work for the Paris Exhibition of 1937.
- Spanish Civil War in 1936
And this is actually the historic end of the Spanish Civil War.
- And this is actually the historic end of the Spanish Civil War.
Examples
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During the Spanish Civil War, German and Italian forces had used aerial bombing raids to aid Francisco Franco's Nationalist side.
Academic text (2011) -
Indeed, he went to Spain and joined the socialist partisans against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War.
Blog text (23) -
Of course, Tommy was killed in the Spanish Civil War.
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Ken was the first person to talk to me about the Spanish Civil War.
Fiction book (2001) -
From 1936 to 1938, thousands of U.S. citizens went to Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
Academic text (2005) -
A general history of the Spanish Civil War would be an even better corrective.
Blog text (33) -
He died while reporting on the Spanish Civil War.
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Hugh Thomas first came to public prominence in 1961 with his acclaimed study, The Spanish Civil War.
Academic text (2011) -
Given his committed stance, MacLeish would clearly have favored activist, anti-fascist reporting on the Spanish Civil War.
Academic text (2016) -
Did I ever tell you my father was killed in the Spanish Civil War?
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is transparently built from the constituents: 'Spanish' (of Spain) + 'civil' (internal/among citizens) + 'war' (armed conflict), so a B1 learner who knows the words can infer it refers to an internal armed conflict in Spain. This compositional structure is cross-linguistically common and remains understandable even though it names a specific historical event.
Etymology
Spanish Civil War combines Spanish (the country) and civil war, where 'civil' means a fight between people of the same country. It names the 1936 to 1939 conflict in Spain when Spaniards fought Spaniards, so the phrase points to that specific internal war.