Meaning of Spanish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Romance language primarily spoken in Spain and in the Americas.
   uncountable
2. People of Spain, collectively.
   collective, countable, plural, uncountable
3. Of or pertaining to Spain
4. A town in Ontario, Canada.
   countable, uncountable
5. Spanish cuisine; traditional Spanish food.
   uncountable
6. Of or pertaining to the people or culture of Spain
7. People of Hispanic origin; one whose first language is Spanish.
   US, collective, countable, in-plural, informal, nonstandard, uncountable
8. Of or pertaining to the Spanish language
9. Money.
   UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable
10. Of or pertaining to Hispanic people or their culture
11. A Romance language primarily spoken in Spain and in the Americas

Equivalents

Examples

“"If he speaks Spanish, my daughter can converse with him ; she has but shortly arrived from Spain."”

““You should read Spanish,” he said. “It is a noble tongue. It has not the mellifluousness of Italian, Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders, but it has grandeur: it does not ripple like a brook in a garden, but it surges tumultuous like a mighty river in flood.””

“Therefore in Novial, as well as in Esp-Ido, we simplify the spelling in all words containing double letters in the national languages, from which the words are taken: pasa (E pass, F passer), efekte, komun (F commun, E common), etc. In this we follow the beautiful example of Spanish, which writes pasar, efecto, común, etc., and even extend it to cases in which Spanish makes a distinction in sound and spelling, as with ll and rr: bel S bello, F belle, koresponda, S corresponder, etc.”

“In contrast with the creole languages discussed above, the article systems of Rumanian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese are more complex, since neutralization fails to occur to a large extent.”

“I call them otroverts—from otro, the Spanish word for “other,” and vertere, Latin for “to turn.” Otroverts are people who turn in a different direction: not inward like introverts, not outward like extroverts, but elsewhere. They turn toward something else entirely—independence, clarity, and observation.”

“The Spanish are not the only ones selling their goods along the wharves and the inner streets.”

“Sixty-four percent more Spanish are functionally illiterate compared to Anglos in Lubbock (only 15 percent more of nonwhites than Anglos).”

“Jack Ar. […] I must come back to father — and what then? — he won't give me the Spanish. Project. The Spanish! — now what the devil's that? Jack Ar. Why, ready money, not credit or paper.”

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