Crossword clues for spaniard
spaniard
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spaniard \Span"iard\, n. A native or inhabitant of Spain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French Espaignart, from Espaigne "Spain," from Latin Hispania, from Greek Hispania "Spain," Hispanos "Spanish, a Spaniard," probably from Celt-Iberian, in which language (H)i- represents a definite article [Klein, who compares Hellenistic Greek Spania]. The earlier English noun was Spaynol (mid-14c.), from Old French Espaignol. The Latin adjectives are Hispanus, Hispanicus, Hispaniensis.
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
Spaniard may refer to:
- Spanish people, the people of the country of Spain. Their descendants in Latin America and elsewhere are called criollos.
- "Spaniard", a song by The Boo Radleys from their 1992 album Everything's Alright Forever
- Spaniard (pigeon), a breed of domestic pigeon
- Certain species of speargrass endemic to New Zealand
- Maximus Decimus Meridius, a fictional character in the 2000 Ridley Scott film Gladiator, portrayed by Russell Crowe
- Pablo Picasso, "The Spaniard", used as if this sobriquet was common among his contemporaries by Asher Lev, protagonist of the Chaim Potok novel, The Gift of Asher Lev
Usage examples of "spaniard".
On the other hand, the British captured some forts on the Mosquito shore from the Spaniards, and took Aera, on the coast of Africa, from the Dutch.
Australian, the Canadian of English blood, the Virginian, and the English Africander, as incomprehensible and unsympathetic one to another as Spaniard and Englishman or Frenchman and German are now.
In other words, the first arrival of the Spaniards at Merida took place at the close of the 11th Ahau Katun.
Of course when the wall yields and the breach has to be defended the warehouses will be held, and as the windows will command the breach they will be great aids to us then, and it would be a great disadvantage to us if the Spaniards now were to throw shells and fireballs into these houses, and so to destroy them before they make their attack.
God knows what the fierce Spaniard would have answered, but at that moment the carriage stopped at the door of the theatre.
Nevertheless, she never forgot her youthful flutters around Antonio Thorndyke, the cool, handsome, dark-eyed Spaniard.
Into the turbulent hotbed of Asuncion fell Antequera, one of those Creoles of Peru who, born with talent and well educated, seemed, either from the circumstances of their birth or the surroundings amongst which they passed their youth, to differ as entirely from the Spaniards as if they had been Indians and not Creoles of white blood.
He succeeded in defeating three armed ships in the Bahama Channel, which had been sent to take him, and he massacred all the Spaniards of European birth that he found among the crews.
Call them all in, Belli and hewing Ewing and Gulielmi, no he is with Shelley and his lordship in in where the tower leans, and our anglophilic Spaniard.
The Corsairs had lit lanterns up and down the length of the galleot shortly before the collision, so that Spaniards running up from belowdecks, rubbing sleep out of their eyes, would be presented with the reassuring sight of oarsmen who were still safely in chains, and free crew members who were unarmed and disorganized.
On the departure of Soult for Oporto the Spaniards again rose in arms, and several places in the Asturias and in the Biscayan provinces had been recaptured.
The clues were speaking Spanish and the name of a Spaniard in Cadiz, his address being somewhere near that church.
Spaniards, did not pass nor come here to this land Yucatan, I was then governor here in this town, here in this land, Chac Xulub Chen.
Spaniards, some French Protestants who came out here to find peace but were followed by the priests, some cimaroons, and a dozen escaped slaves.
It did seem almost like an act of madness that two vessels, which by the side of those of the Spaniards were mere cockleshells, manned in all by less than eighty men, should attempt to enter a region where they would be regarded, and rightly, as enemies, and where the hand of every man would be against them.