GALICIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Galicia mean? 

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

1. a region (and former kingdom) in northwestern Spain on the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GALICIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region (and former kingdom) in northwestern Spain on the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

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

 Context examples 

By Saint James! said he, if ye fall this day ye fall by no mean hands, for the flower of the knighthood of Castile ride under the banner of Don Tello, with the chivalry of Asturias, Toledo, Leon, Cordova, Galicia, and Seville.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)