Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Spain.
- noun A person of Spanish ancestry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native or a citizen of Spain, a kingdom of southwestern Europe, forming the greater part of the Iberian peninsula; in general, a member of the Spanish race, of mixed Celtic, Latin, Gothic, Arabic, and other elements, but now ranked as one of the Latin peoples.
- noun [lowercase] Same as
jack-spaniard . - noun In New Zealand, same as
spear-grass , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Spain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Somebody
born orresiding inSpain .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a native or inhabitant of Spain
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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After seeing that recent shot of him in a leg-locking horizontal clutch with Penélope Cruz on a beach in the Maldives, who could deny the Spaniard is a sex symbol?
People Magazine Proves What I Knew In My Heart To Be True: Javier Bardem is Hot! | Best Week Ever 2007
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It has always been said that the Spaniard is an individualist and rarely does he unite with his colleagues in any collective action.
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And the Spaniard is reveling that Armstrong will be looking up to him on the podium.
Contador on course for Tour triumph; Lance seals podium 2009
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A: A Spaniard is a person who spends all their life trying to learn English.
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The top-ranked Spaniard is "stuggling with ongoing knee problems and has been advised to rest by doctors," tournament organizers said in a statement.
Nadal pulls out of Queen's Club due to 'ongoing knee problems' 2009
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Race-savvy and cunning, Sanchez could become a last-minute replacement for team leader Freire if the Spaniard is not quite feeling up to the job.
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Do they both count as white, even though the Spaniard is part Arabic and the Russian was born in Asia?
The Volokh Conspiracy » How to Turn Good News into Bad News 2010
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The 33-year-old Spaniard is riding in his eighth Tour, and this is his first yellow jersey.
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If this wasn't a contradiction in terms one could say that the aspiration of the typical Spaniard is a strange, prohibitionist and dictatorial country of concordant individualists.
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The longing of the typical Spaniard is that everyone, more than uniting with him, imitates him, either by free will or by force.
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