SPANIARD

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

1. a native or inhabitant of Spain

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

• SPANIARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Spain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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 

“A thousand pardons, dear friend,” the Spaniard answered quickly, for a flush of anger had sprung to the dark cheek of the English prince.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A Spaniard would write to a Spaniard in Spanish.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By good chance we got a cab near the "Spaniards," and drove to town.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Their design was to turn pirates and, plunder the Spaniards, which they could not do till they got more men.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At the time I never questioned that it had spurted from some stricken Frenchman or Spaniard, and I shrank from him in terror when he laid his horny hand upon my head.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Spaniards were so prodigiously afraid of him that, I tell you, sir, I was sometimes proud he was an Englishman.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mary had a milder and more open countenance than Blanche; softer features too, and a skin some shades fairer (Miss Ingram was dark as a Spaniard)—but Mary was deficient in life: her face lacked expression, her eye lustre; she had nothing to say, and having once taken her seat, remained fixed like a statue in its niche.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In this great district the wild rubber tree flourishes, and has become, as in the Congo, a curse to the natives which can only be compared to their forced labor under the Spaniards upon the old silver mines of Darien.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Haughty English, lively French, sober Germans, handsome Spaniards, ugly Russians, meek Jews, free-and-easy Americans, all drive, sit, or saunter here, chatting over the news, and criticizing the latest celebrity who has arrived—Ristori or Dickens, Victor Emmanuel or the Queen of the Sandwich Islands.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Let those go back who will, but I must see more of these Spaniards ere I turn.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)