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Spayen

Spayen is the obsolete spelling of Spain.

Meaning of Spain

Proper noun

Spain

  1. A country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula. Official name: Kingdom of Spain. Capital and largest city: Madrid.
    • The mountains of Spain consist of parallel ranges, running from east to west[…]1865, James Stuart Laurie, editor, Manual of Elementary Geography, page 40
  2. An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Spanish ancestry.

Questions about Spayen

What is Spayen the obsolete spelling of?
Spayen is the obsolete spelling of Spain.

Words near Spayen in the dictionary

  1. spayde
  2. spaydes
  3. Spayds
  4. spaye
  5. spayed
  6. Spayen
  7. spayer
  8. spayers
  9. spaying
  10. spayings
  11. Spaynard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Spayen (page history and authors); Spain (page history and authors). 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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