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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spain mean? 

• SPAIN (noun)
  The noun SPAIN has 1 sense:

1. a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power

  Familiarity information: SPAIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Spain"):

Castile; Castilla (a region of central Spain; a former kingdom that comprised most of modern Spain and united with Aragon to form Spain in 1479)

Leon (a city in northwestern Spain at the foot of the Cantabrian Mountains)

Malaga (a port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean)

Oviedo (a city in northwestern Spain near the Cantabrian Mountains)

San Sebastian (a city in northern Spain on the Bay of Biscay near the French border; a fashionable seaside resort)

Sevilla; Seville (a city in southwestern Spain; a major port and cultural center; the capital of bullfighting in Spain)

Toledo (a city in central Spain on the Tagus river; famous for steel and swords since the first century)

Aragon (a region of northeastern Spain; a former kingdom that united with Castile in 1479 to form Spain (after the marriage of Ferdinand V and Isabella I))

Saragossa; Zaragoza (an ancient city on the Ebro River in northeastern Spain; formerly the capital of Aragon)

Jerez; Jerez de la Frontera (a city in southwestern Spain that is famous for making sherry)

Catalonia (a region of northeastern Spain)

Galicia (a region (and former kingdom) in northwestern Spain on the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay)

Valencia (a city in eastern Spain on the Mediterranean)

Lusitania (ancient region and Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula; corresponds roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain)

Cantabrian Mountains (a range of mountains in northern Spain along the coast of the Bay of Biscay)

Cape Trafalgar (a small cape in southwestern Spain)

Ebro; Ebro River (a river in northeastern Spain; flows into the Mediterranean)

Pyrenees (a chain of mountains between France and Spain)

Sierra Nevada (a mountain range in southern Spain along the Mediterranean coast to the east of Granada)

Tagus; Tagus River (a European river; flows into the North Atlantic)

Cordoba; Cordova (a city in southern Spain; center of Moorish culture)

Cartagena (a port in southeastern Spain on the Mediterranean)

Cadiz (an ancient port city in southwestern Spain)

Barcelona (a city in northeastern Spain on the Mediterranean; 2nd largest Spanish city and the largest port and commercial center; has been a center for radical political beliefs)

Canaries; Canary Islands (a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces)

Majorca (the largest of the Balearic Islands)

Balearic Islands (an archipelago in the western Mediterranean off the eastern coast of Spain)

capital of Spain; Madrid; Spanish capital (the capital and largest city situated centrally in Spain; home of an outstanding art museum)

Andalucia; Andalusia (a region in southern Spain on the Atlantic and the Mediterranean; formerly a center of Moorish civilization)

Meronyms (members of "Spain"):

Spaniard (a native or inhabitant of Spain)

Basque (a member of a people of unknown origin living in the western Pyrenees in France and Spain)

Domain member region:

amigo (a friend or comrade)

conquistador (an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century))

criollo (a Spanish American of pure European stock (usually Spanish))

Grand Inquisitor (director of the court of Inquisition (especially in Spain and Portugal))

Don Juan (any successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman))

duenna (a woman chaperon)

auto-da-fe (the burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition))

First of October Antifascist Resistance Group; GRAPO (an armed wing of the (illegal) Communist Party of Spain; seeks to overthrow the Spanish government and replace it with a Marxist-Leninist regime)

Basque Fatherland and Liberty; Basque Homeland and Freedom; ETA; Euskadi ta Askatasuna (a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees)

sangaree; sangria (sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water)

paella (saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken)

Catalan (the Romance language spoken in Catalonia in eastern Spain (related to Spanish and Occitan))

Spanish (the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain)

Galician (a language spoken in Galicia, an Autonomus Community of Spain)

Spanish Civil War (civil war in Spain in which Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government; during the war Spain became a battleground for fascists and socialists from all countries; 1936-1939)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Spain"):

Logrono (a city in northern Spain on the Ebro River)

Holonyms ("Spain" is a part of...):

Iberia; Iberian Peninsula (a peninsula in southwestern Europe)

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Holonyms ("Spain" is a member of...):

Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)

NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)

 Context examples 

“And now, Tiphaine, tell us what will come of this war in Spain.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They have been widely used in the traditional medicine of both countries (Mexico and Spain).

(Scientists examine the ethnobotanical uses of stramonium, University of Granada)

In Spain, the rate has been above 1 since 2001.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

In Spain, almost all watermelon are grown from grafted plants.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)

I suggest that ‘D’ stands for Dolores, a common female name in Spain.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A country in southwestern Europe, between France and Spain.

(Andorra, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Southwestern Europe, between France and Spain.

(Andorra, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The Ross Ice Shelf, a part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet that is floating on the ocean, measures several hundred meters thick and covers more than 480,000 square kilometers, approximately the size of Spain.

(Study in Antarctic waters reveals why Ross Ice Shelf melts in summer, National Science Foundation)

However, in Spain, more than 40% of children use backpacks on wheeled trolleys, and until now there have been no studies making weight recommendations for this type of backpack.

(Researchers identify the maximum weight that children should carry in their school backpacks, University of Granada)

Folk were weary of the war, for we had been at it for eight years, taking Holland, and Spain, and France each in turn and all together.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)