SPANISH ARMADA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spanish Armada mean? 

• SPANISH ARMADA (noun)
  The noun SPANISH ARMADA has 1 sense:

1. the great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588

  Familiarity information: SPANISH ARMADA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPANISH ARMADA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Invincible Armada; Spanish Armada

Instance hypernyms:

armada (a large fleet)

 Context examples 

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)