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SPANISH

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 I. (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

Synonyms:

Spanish; Spanish people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

Spanish music

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

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

Credits

 Context examples: 

A person of Spanish culture or origin, but not Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, regardless of race.

(Other Hispanic or Latino(a), NCI Thesaurus)

A person not of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.

(Not Hispanic or Latino, NCI Thesaurus)

A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.

(Hispanic or Latino, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.

(Hispanic or Latino, NCI Thesaurus)

A person living in the United States of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin.

(Multiple Hispanic, NCI Thesaurus)

But a new study by the French-Spanish team of scientists led by biologist Purificación Lopez Garcia of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) suggests that there is no life in Dallol’s multi-extreme ponds.

(Place discovered on earth with no microbial life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Can you tell me why, when other spiders die small and soon, that one great spider lived for centuries in the tower of the old Spanish church and grew and grew, till, on descending, he could drink the oil of all the church lamps?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Encouragement and advice were freely tendered, and Jock Horner, the quiet, self-spoken hunter who looked as though he would not harm a mouse, advised me to leave the ribs alone and to thrust upward for the abdomen, at the same time giving what he called the Spanish twist to the blade.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

What’s bad about the French alternative is that it seems to use BPS, since we have found it mostly in samples from that country and seldom have we found it in Brazilian or Spanish samples.

(Purchase receipts with easily erasable ink contain cancer- and infertility inducing substances, University of Granada)

Given the importance of these species, a team of researchers from Mexican and Spanish institutions, including scientists from the University of Granada (UGR), Spain’s National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC), and Mexico’s National School of Anthropology and History recently conducted a study on the past and current uses of these plants in both countries.

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