spanish

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of Spain or the people of Spain

   “Spanish music”

Other forms of spanish

plural

spanishes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about spanish

What does spanish mean?

spanish means "the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spanish?

spanish has 2 syllables: span-ish. The stress falls on "span". In IPA it is /ˈspænɪʃ/.

What is another word for spanish?

Close synonyms include Spanish people. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spanish a common word?

spanish is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.