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.
Matched Categories
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
Usage in printed sourcesFrom:
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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
The situation seems somewhat extraordinary for us, because they don’t speak Spanish, and it puts them in a situation in which they are increasingly exposed to risk.
Health Minister Salvador Illa:
We feel very proud of what the Spanish healthcare workers are doing.
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.
For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.
Even though The President dropped the ball, The President is now doing a victory dance in the end zone, or should we call it the dead zone ? Trump's comments also drew swift condemnation from elected officials and residents of the island, where blackouts remain common, 60,000 homes still have makeshift roofs and 13 percent of municipalities lack stable phone or internet service. Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rossello said in a Facebook post in Spanish, the victims of Puerto Rico, and the people of Puerto Rico in general, do not deserve to be questioned about their pain. San Juan Mayor Carmen Yuln Cruz, a Democrat who has sparred with President Trump multiple times, tweeted that President Trump is so vain President Trump thinks this is about President Trump. NO IT IS NOT. In New York, which has the largest Puerto Rican population in the mainland United States, Gov. Andrew Cuomo called Trump’s tweets.
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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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