Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A country of southwest Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Inhabited since the Stone Age, the region was successively colonized in ancient times by Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthage, and Rome. Germanic peoples settled in Spain starting in AD 409 but were supplanted by the Moors (711–719), under whose rule the region was noted for its prosperity and cultural development. The Moors were gradually displaced by small Christian states and were ousted from their last stronghold, Granada, in 1492. Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile then became rulers of a united Spain, which became a world power through exploration and conquest. After the empire was lost in the 18th and 19th centuries, Spain experienced social and economic unrest culminating in a civil war (1936–1939) and the rise of Francisco Franco. After Franco's death in 1975, a constitutional monarchy was established under King Juan Carlos. Madrid is the capital and the largest city.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
spane .
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- proper noun A
country inEurope , including most of theIberian peninsula . Official name: Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power
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JOSE MARIE AZNAR, PRIME MINISTER, SPAIN: Well, these people are -- eight detained in Spain at present.
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SPAIN AND ITALY. (_a_) Why are Spain, Italy, and Turkey sometimes called "the three decadent nations of Europe"?
Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various
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The CHURCH OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL traces its foundation to St. Paul, who speaks of his intended visit to Spain, Rom.xv. 24; and there is also a tradition that St. James the Great preached the Gospel here.
A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) John Henry Blunt
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I never had the slightest interest in the gipsies, but I always had a corner in my heart for Spain and Wales, and consequently _The Bible in Spain_ and _Wild Wales_ have always been favourite books.
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891
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And all for Spain; for _Spain_! ingrateful _Spain_!
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664
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GRANADA (SPAIN): US First Lady Michelle Obama and her nine-year-old daughter Sasha visited Granada, the former seat of Moorish rule in Spain, during the second day of her holiday in the country.
The Times of India 2010
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Actually, to be fair, New Orleans had been BOUGHT from spain/New Spain by france, several years before the lousiana purchase.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Erudite41 2010
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Actually, to be fair, New Orleans had been BOUGHT from spain/New Spain by france, several years before the lousiana purchase.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Bubb 2010
yarb commented on the word Spain
From Spaine what bringeth our Traueller? a scull cround hat of the fashion of an olde deepe poringer, a diminutiue Aldermans ruffe with shorte strings like the droppings of a mans nose, a close-bellied dublet comming downe with a peake behinde as farre as the crupper, and cut off before by the breast-boane like a partlet or neckercher, a wyde payre of gascoynes which vngatherd would make a couple of womens ryding kyrtles, huge hangers that haue halfe a Cowe hyde in them, a Rapyer that is lineally descended from halfe a dozen Dukes at the least.
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594
April 14, 2010