spanish
Syllables: Span·ish/ˈspæn.ɪʃ/UK/ˈspænɪʃ/
spanish verb: to subject to spanishing, a printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a plastic material.
Verb
spanish (third-person singular simple present spanishes, present participle spanishing, simple past and past participle spanished)
- To subject to spanishing, a printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a plastic material
- Such papers have been print-embossed or spanished to obtain special effects.1969, Robert H. Mosher, Dale Stroble Davis, Industrial and Specialty Papers: Applications, page 180
Adjective capitalized: Spanish
Spanish (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to Spain.
- Spanish borders
- Whether Martial's heart was in the Spanish highlands or whether he was happy enough in Rome will be discussed later[…]2005, J. P. Sullivan, Martial, the unexpected classic, page 1
- Of or pertaining to the people or culture of Spain.
- Spanish cuisines
- Though she was Indian like the rest of us, she had a fine Spanish nose.1996, Oscar Zeta Acosta, “From Whence I Came”, in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta: the uncollected works, page 42
- Of or pertaining to the Spanish language.
- Spanish verbs
- Fundamentally, the Spanish vowel sounds are only five, even though as a matter of fact there may be different other sounds for such vowels as [a], [e] and [o].1918, Julián Moreno-Lacalle, Elements of Spanish Pronunciation, page 12
- Of or pertaining to Hispanic people or their culture.
Proper noun capitalized: Spanish
Spanish (countable and uncountable, plural Spanishes)
- A Romance language primarily spoken in Spain and in the Americas.
- "If he speaks Spanish, my daughter can converse with him ; she has but shortly arrived from Spain."1873, Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy, page 163
- “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.”1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXXXVI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- Castilian
- A town in Ontario, Canada.
Noun capitalized: Spanish
Spanish (countable and uncountable, plural Spanish or Spanishes)
- The people of Spain, collectively; Spaniards.
- The Spanish are not the only ones selling their goods along the wharves and the inner streets.1976, Robert Rézette, The Spanish Enclaves in Morocco, page 62
- Synonyms:
- Spaniard
- Spanish cuisine; traditional Spanish food.
- People of Hispanic origin; one whose first language is Spanish.
- Sixty-four percent more Spanish are functionally illiterate compared to Anglos in Lubbock (only 15 percent more of nonwhites than Anglos).1970, Henry Sioux Johnson, William J. Hernández-Martinez, Educating the Mexican American, page 87
- Synonyms:
- Hispanic
- Money.
- 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.1797, Frederic Reynolds, Reynolds' Plays, page 13
- Jack Ar. […] I must come back to father — and what then? — he won't give me the Spanish.
- Licorice.
- A mixture of ash and cinders added to bricks before firing them, to cause ignition and reduce fuel usage.
spanish meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
spanish in Hindi
- Spanish, of Spain
- स्पैनिश spainiś, स्पेनी spenī
- Spanish
- हिस्पानवी hispānvī
spanish in Tamil
- எசுப்பானிய மொழி
spanish in Marathi
- स्पॅनिशिंग, स्पॅनिश
spanish in Urdu
- ہسپانوی
More languagesFewer languages
- spanish in Bengali
- স্পেনীয়
- spanish in Telugu
- స్పానిషింగ్, స్పానిష్, స్పానిష్ చేయడం
- spanish in Malayalam
- സ്പാനിഷ് spāniṣŭ, സഫറാദി saphaṟādi
- spanish in Kannada
- ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನಿಶ್
- spanish in Punjabi
- ਸਪੇਨਿਸ਼ਿੰਗ, ਸਪੈਨਿਸ਼ਿੰਗ, ਸਪੈਨਿਸ਼
- spanish in Gujarati
- સ્પેનિશ speniś
- spanish in Odia
- ସ୍ପାନିସିଙ୍ଗ
- spanish in Nepali
- स्प्यानिसिङ, स्प्यानिशिङ, स्प्यानिङ
Examples of spanish in a sentence
- Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.
- Spanish orthography has high phonemicity: it corresponds precisely and consistently with the sounds of the phonemes.
- Spanish reductions in Mexico were common during the 18th century.
Synonyms of spanish
Forms of spanish
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | spanishes |
| present participle | spanishing |
| past participle | spanished |
| past | spanished |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Spanishes |
| Noun | |
| plural | Spanish |
| plural | Spanishes |
Origin of spanish
Inherited from Middle English Spanisch, either an alteration of Spaynisch after foreign words for "Spain" or "Spanish" such as Old Spanish Espanna, Old Spanish espannol or a partial calque of them; equivalent to Spain + -ish.
Words formed from spanish
- Black Spanish
- Ibero-Spanish
- New Spanish
- Sables-Spanish Rivers
- Second Spanish Republic
- Spanglish
- Spanish America
- Spanish American
- Spanish-American War
- Spanish Armada
- Spanish athlete
- Spanish bayonet
- Spanish bean
- Spanish beard
- Spanish black
- Spanish bluebell
- Spanish boot
- Spanish brown
- Spanish buckeye
- Spanish burton
- Spanish chalk
- Spanish champagne
- Spanish cherry
- Spanish chestnut
- Spanish clover
- Spanish cress
- Spanish cubit
- Spanish dagger
- Spanish dancer
- Spanish dancing
- Spanish dollar
- Spanish donkey
- Spanish elm
- Spanish Empire
- Spanisher
- Spanish fever
- Spanish fir
- Spanish flag
- Spanish flu
- Spanish fly
- Spanish fox
- Spanish fury
- Spanish Game
- Spanish grass
- Spanish green
- Spanish Guinea
- Spanish ham
- Spanish handkerchief
- Spanish ibex
- Spanish influenza
- Spanish Inquisition
- Spanish iris
- Spanishise
- Spanishize
- Spanish jasmine
- Spanish juice
- Spanish lace
- Spanish Lake
- Spanish lavender
- Spanish lime
Phrases with spanish
- Old Spanish
- Spanish red
- Spanish coat
- Spanish elms
- Spanish firs
- Spanish fowl
- Spanish hams
- Spanish line
- Spanish lynx
- Spanish Main
- Spanish moss
- Spanish plum
117 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Spanish reds
- Spanish reef
- Spanish rice
- Spanish Road
- Spanish soap
- Spanish Town
- Spanish walk
- Spanish wall
- walk Spanish
- Spanish beans
- Spanish boots
- Spanish broom
- Spanish cedar
- Spanish coats
- Spanish flies
- Spanish fowls
- Spanish foxes
- Spanish limes
- Spanish lines
- Spanish onion
- Spanish Peaks
- Spanish plume
- Spanish plums
- Spanish reefs
- Spanish shame
- Spanish sheep
- Spanish snail
- Spanish walls
- Spanish white
- walks Spanish
- Spanish Arabic
- Spanish beards
- Spanish brooms
- Spanish browns
- Spanish cedars
- Spanish cubits
- Spanish furies
- Spanish guitar
- Spanish ibexes
- Spanish irises
- Spanish lynxes
- Spanish mosses
- Spanish omelet
- Spanish onions
- Spanish pepper
- Spanish plumes
- Spanish potato
- Spanish Sahara
- Spanish shames
- Spanish whites
- walked Spanish
- Mexican Spanish
- Spanish burtons
- Spanish daggers
- Spanish dancers
- Spanish dollars
- Spanish donkeys
- Spanish Guinean
- Spanish guitars
- Spanish Mastiff
- Spanish Mestiza
- Spanish Mestizo
- Spanish needles
- Spanish omelets
- Spanish Opening
- Spanish oregano
- Spanish paprika
- Spanish peppers
- Spanish sausage
- Spanish sparrow
- Spanish Springs
- Spanish studies
- Spanish Torture
- Spanish Yiddish
- walking Spanish
- American Spanish
- Belizean Spanish
- Spanish athletes
- Spanish bayonets
- Spanish buckeyes
- Spanish Guineans
- Spanish jasmines
- Spanish mackerel
- Spanish Mestizas
- Spanish Mestizos
- Spanish omelette
- Spanish potatoes
- Spanish prisoner
- Spanish sausages
- Spanish solution
- Spanish sparrows
- Spanish windlass
- Spanish Americans
- Spanish chestnuts
- Spanish mackerels
- Spanish nectarine
- Spanish omelettes
- Spanish practices
- Spanish prisoners
- Spanish solutions
- Spanish Water Dog
- swamp Spanish oak
- English or Spanish
- Peninsular Spanish
- Philippine Spanish
- Spanish nectarines
- Spanish Water Dogs
- Spanish windlasses
- swamp Spanish oaks
- Spanish Netherlands
- Spanish West Indies
- white Spanish broom
- yellow Spanish plum
- Equatoguinean Spanish
- Spanish Sign Language
- Latin-American Spanish
- Spanish Virgin Islands
Words that rhyme with spanish
Questions about spanish
- What does spanish mean?
- Spanish means to subject to spanishing, a printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a plastic material.
- What is spanish in Hindi?
- Spanish in Hindi is स्पैनिश (spainiś), स्पेनी (spenī), हिस्पानवी (hispānvī). See Spanish meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is spanish?
- Spanish can be a verb, an adjective, a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce spanish?
- Spanish is pronounced /ˈspæn.ɪʃ/.
- What is the past tense of spanish?
- The past tense of spanish is spanished.
Words near spanish in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spanish (page history and authors); Spanish (page history and authors); स्पेनी (Hindi) (page history and authors); Spanish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spanish (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); spanish (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); Spanish (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spanish (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); സഫറാദി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); Spanish (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spanish (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); સ્પેનિશ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); spanish (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); spanish (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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