SPANISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spanish mean? 

• SPANISH (noun)
  The noun SPANISH has 2 senses:

1. the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain

2. the people of Spain

  Familiarity information: SPANISH used as a noun is rare.

• SPANISH (adjective)
  The adjective SPANISH has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Spain or the people of Spain

  Familiarity information: SPANISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPANISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Spanish" is a kind of...):

Latinian language; Romance; Romance language (the group of languages derived from Latin)

Domain member category:

feria ((in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint)

Don (a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is prefixed to the forename)

Dona (a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for a woman)

Senor (a Spanish title or form of address for a man; similar to the English 'Mr' or 'sir')

Senora (a Spanish title or form of address for a married woman; similar to the English 'Mrs' or 'madam')

Senorita (a Spanish title or form of address used to or of an unmarried girl or woman; similar to the English 'Miss')

Don (a Spanish gentleman or nobleman)

El Nino (the Christ child)

Domain region:

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

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

Castilian (the Spanish language as spoken in Castile)

Judeo-Spanish; Ladino (the Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script)

Mexican Spanish (the dialect of Spanish spoken in Mexico)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The people of Spain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Spanish; Spanish people

Hypernyms ("Spanish" is a kind of...):

country; land; nation (the people who live in a nation or country)

• SPANISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Spain or the people of Spain

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Spanish music

Pertainym:

Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

 Context examples 

“How comes it, dog?” asked Sir William Felton in Spanish.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dreadful stories they were—about hanging, and walking the plank, and storms at sea, and the Dry Tortugas, and wild deeds and places on the Spanish Main.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We saw Tilbury Fort and remembered the Spanish Armada, Gravesend, Woolwich, and Greenwich—places which I had heard of even in my country.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In one study, on average, about 3.68% of letters used in English tend to be "a"s, while the number is 6.22% in Spanish and 3.95% in French.

(A, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Then I made my way to town and called at the Spanish embassy.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were six Spanish pieces of four pistoles each, beside twenty or thirty smaller coins.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

My father said nothing about her money; but he told me Miss Mason was the boast of Spanish Town for her beauty: and this was no lie.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The Spanish research team took saplings of commercially grown Adige Lamuyo peppers and grafted these onto wild peppers.

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

It was he who attacked twelve Spanish gunboats in his one little brig, and made four of them strike to him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, a study carried out by researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has proven that bacteria may play a crucial role in barite precipitation.

(Researchers discover the oceanic precipitation mechanism for barium, which is a proxy for marine bacterial productivity, University of Granada)