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SPANIARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of Spain
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Spaniard" is a kind of...):
European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Spaniard"):
Castillian (a native or inhabitant of Castile)
Catalan (a native or inhabitant of Catalonia)
Holonyms ("Spaniard" is a member of...):
Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)
Context examples:
There is, on the face of it, something unnatural about this strange and sudden friendship between the young Spaniard and Scott Eccles. It was the former who forced the pace.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Even the Jacks aboard our ships fought with a viciousness against a French vessel which they would never show to Dane, Dutchman, or Spaniard.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Of these Spaniards I know nothing; but the French are very worthy gentlemen, and will do what they can for our advancement.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The man was a Spaniard.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Well, said she, I am not in voice, and it is ill to play in a little room with but two to listen, but you must conceive me to be the Queen of the Peruvians, who is exhorting her countrymen to rise up against the Spaniards, who are oppressing them.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“We must back to camp, and ere three days I trust that we may see these Spaniards again. I would fain have ye all in my company.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had himself thrown off his armor, and had dressed himself from head to foot in the harness of the captured Spaniard.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“What ransom, then, does he demand?” asked the Spaniard.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“My harness is yours by the law of arms,” said the Spaniard, gloomily.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As he spoke, the vast throng of Spaniards and of Frenchmen trooped across the plain, with brandished arms and tossing banners.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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