spanish armada

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   the great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588

   SynonymsInvincible Armada

   Broaderarmada

Questions about spanish armada

What does spanish armada mean?

spanish armada means "the great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588".

What is another word for spanish armada?

Close synonyms include Invincible Armada. 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 armada a common word?

spanish armada is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.