ANDALUSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Andalusia mean? 

• ANDALUSIA (noun)
  The noun ANDALUSIA has 1 sense:

1. a region in southern Spain on the Atlantic and the Mediterranean; formerly a center of Moorish civilization

  Familiarity information: ANDALUSIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANDALUSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region in southern Spain on the Atlantic and the Mediterranean; formerly a center of Moorish civilization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Andalucia; Andalusia

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Andalusia"):

Granada (a city in southeastern Spain that was the capital of the Moorish kingdom until it was captured by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492; site of the Alhambra (a palace and fortress built by Moors in the Middle Ages) which is now a major tourist attraction)

Holonyms ("Andalusia" is a part of...):

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

Derivation:

Andalusian (in or relating to Andalusia)

 Context examples 

Sir Nigel, meanwhile, had found a foeman worthy of his steel for his opponent was none other than Sebastian Gomez, the picked lance of the monkish Knights of Santiago, who had won fame in a hundred bloody combats with the Moors of Andalusia.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)