What does Spanish mean?
Definitions for Spanish
ˈspæn ɪʃspan·ish
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Spanish.
Princeton's WordNet
Spanishnoun
the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain
Spanish, Spanish peopleadjective
the people of Spain
Spanishadjective
of or relating to or characteristic of Spain or the people of Spain
"Spanish music"
Wiktionary
Spanishnoun
People of Spain, collectively.
Spanishnoun
People of Hispanic origin.
Spanishadjective
Of or pertaining to Spain.
Spanishadjective
Of or pertaining to the people or culture of Spain.
Spanishadjective
Of or pertaining to the Spanish language.
Spanishnoun
A Romance language primarily spoken in Spain and in the Americas.
spanishverb
To subject to spanishing, a printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a plastic material
Etymology: From Spainish, Spanish, from Spain + -ish.
ChatGPT
spanish
Spanish refers to anything related to Spain, particularly its language and culture. It is a Romance language with approximately 460 million people speaking it as their first language, making it the second most spoken language in terms of native speakers. Spanish is the official language in Spain and most countries in Central and South America. Spanish also signifies the people of Spain or Spanish-speaking countries.
Webster Dictionary
Spanishadjective
of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards
Spanishnoun
the language of Spain
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Spanish
span′ish, adj. of or pertaining to Spain.—n. the language of Spain.—n. Span′iard, a native or citizen of Spain.—Spanish bayonet, any one of several species of yucca with straight sword-shaped leaves; Spanish broom, a hardy deciduous Mediterranean shrub with showy yellow fragrant flowers; Spanish chalk, a variety of talc; Spanish cress, a species of peppergrass; Spanish fly, a blister-beetle, a cantharid possessing a strong blistering principle, cantharidine: a preparation of cantharides used as a vesicant; Spanish fowl, a breed of the domestic hen—also White-faced black Spanish; Spanish grass, esparto; Spanish juice, extract of liquorice-root; Spanish Main, a name given to the north coast of South America from the Orinoco to Darien, and to the shores of the former Central American provinces of Spain contiguous to the Caribbean Sea—the name is often popularly applied to the Caribbean Sea itself: Spanish sheep, a merino; Spanish soap, Castile soap.—Walk Spanish, to be compelled to walk on tiptoe through being lifted up by the collar and the seat of the trousers—hence to proceed or act under compulsion.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
SPANISH
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Spanish is ranked #150452 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Spanish surname appeared 109 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Spanish.
60.5% or 66 total occurrences were White.
23.8% or 26 total occurrences were Black.
11% or 12 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Spanish' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2934
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Spanish' in Adjectives Frequency: #401
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Spanish in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Spanish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of Spanish in a Sentence
What they are signing is a letter of intent, though not a contract, which contains both their rights as well as their duties, they have to learn Spanish, and they have to retrain because they were captured young, before they could develop a career or a profession.
I loved going to her house, it was like a hacienda type of like beautiful home off of Coldwater Canyon, very Los Angeles. She just had a very open home. I’d been there for parties, her office in the daytime. It was classic, Spanish, California – sunshine, orange groves and creativity.
To reach an agreement someone must make the first step. The Spanish government will make that first step now.
Every lawmaker living inside an embassy is a permanent reminder for that country, its media and its people that Nicols Maduro isnt just a problem for Venezuelans, imagine if Nancy Pelosi had to run to an embassy because President Trump wanted to send her to prison, or the head of congress in France had to hide inside the Spanish embassy because of Macron.
What is this way of treating the allies of the The United States, including United Kingdom, the Spanish, the Italians, and us the French, by systematically threatening us with sanctions ?
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Translations for Spanish
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- الأسبانيةArabic
- SpanischGerman
- hispanaEsperanto
- españolSpanish
- اسپانیاییPersian
- EspanjaFinnish
- EspanolFrench
- spanyolHungarian
- իսպա� երե� Armenian
- SpanyolIndonesian
- spagnoloItalian
- ספרדיתHebrew
- スペイン語Japanese
- ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನಿಷ್Kannada
- spanishLatin
- SpaansDutch
- spanskNorwegian
- hiszpańskiPolish
- espanholPortuguese
- SpaniolăRomanian
- spanskSwedish
- ஸ்பானிஷ்Tamil
- spanishTelugu
- สเปนThai
- İspanyolTurkish
- người Tây Ban NhaVietnamese
- שפּאַנישYiddish
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