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Learners of English as a second language usually know the word Spain once they have reached the level A2 – Elementary. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning Spain meaning

What does Spain mean?

Definitions in simple English

Spain Proper noun

— Spain is a country in Europe near Portugal, Andorra, and France.

Spain

— noun a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power

Synonyms Spain synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as Spain?

Spain English » English

Kingdom of Spain

Espana

the Kingdom of Spain

spanish state

kingdom of spain

Spanish

Topics Spain topics

What do people use Spain to talk about?

Grammar Name Name of a place

Names of countries

• What are the proper names of the neighboring countries?
  Netherlands Germany France Spain Mexico

Examples Spain examples

How do I use Spain in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain.

Madrid is the capital of Spain.

I am from Spain.

I'm from Spain.

Catalonia is not Spain.

Spain declared a state of emergency Friday.

How much do you leave for a tip in Spain?

Ah! If I were rich, I'd buy myself a house in Spain.

France is adjacent to Spain.

Everything was exciting to me when I visited Spain for the first time.

At that time, Mexico was not yet independent of Spain.

Spain once governed the Philippine Islands.

Spain is abundant in oranges.

Spain is the host country for the Olympics in 1992.

Johnny moved to Spain just a few months ago, so he isn't used to speaking Spanish as yet.

My uncle lives in Madrid, the capital of Spain.

You must accept the king of Spain as your leader.

Spain has been a democracy since 1975.

We are hoping to visit Spain this summer.

The food in my country is not very different from that of Spain.

Spain was one of the world's mightiest nations.

This is what I bought in Spain.

Movie subtitles

Along with Portugal, Spain had been first off the mark, seizing the initiative in the New World.

In Arras, behind the lines of Spain.

A snowball in his hands could become as hostile as the knives of Spain.

Before that, it was unknown to the rest of the world and even in Spain.

This is rare in Spain and gives the streets a medieval aspect.

Elsewhere in Spain, hill people, peasants and workers have achieved better conditions through mutual self-help.

But the workers and peasants of Spain will defeat Franco and his cronies. With the help of anti-fascists from all over the world civil war will give way to peace, work and happiness.

I traced the two of you there and to Spain and to South America and finally here.

Argentine's a city in Spain.

With this sword, Robert I'll swing a stroke from Norway down to Spain.

Spain.

Spain, huh?

I've read every book about Spain.

Her family's from Spain.

Tomorrow, I'll put you on a boat to Spain.

Now, Columbus sailed from Spain to India looking for a shortcut.

Christopher Columbo, he write the Queen of Spain a nice little note, he say how I love you, then he get a great big boat.

To admit professors from Spain and Italy might corrupt the purity of our teaching.

You know Spain?

When were you last in Spain?

Imagine, in this icecap, finding someone who knows Spain.

In Spain, we hear that the Queen is a bluestocking. who cares more for learning than for love.

If you are ever in Spain, I'll return the hospitality.

Knight of the Holy Roman Empire, Envoy Extraordinary. from His Majesty Philip, King of Spain, Aragon and Castile.

You must visit Spain.

King of Spain, Aragon and Castile.

Your Excellency will convey to the King of Spain. our high appreciation of the honor he does us. in sending to our court a person of your quality.

They might wonder why four grown men went on holiday together, saying they were going to Spain and actually ending up in Morocco.

The first road to las Hurdes was built only in 1922. Before that, it was unknown to the rest of the world and even in Spain.

Elsewhere in Spain, hill people, peasants and workers have achieved better conditions through mutual self-help. They have made demands of the authorities for a better life..will give impetus to the coming elections and lead to a Popular Front government.

But the workers and peasants of Spain will defeat Franco and his cronies.

Don't tell me the king of Spain is going to jump out of a pie.

Their Excellencies, the Ambassador of Spain and Madame Monte.

Are we going to declare war on Spain?

He made but one condition: That they pay him yearly the tribute of a falcon in acknowledgement that Malta was still under Spain.

They sent the foot-high jeweled bird to Charles in Spain.

It never reached Spain.

Well, sir, you might as well say it belonged to the King of Spain.

In 1936, you fought in Spain on the Loyalist side.

You fought against the fascists in Spain.

News and current affairs

Spanish workers are streaming into Romania, which until recently had been a major source of agricultural labor in Spain.

Nevertheless, the markets are clearly signaling growing doubt about whether Spain and Italy will be willing to bear their debt burden.

A quarter of the labor force and half of Spain's youth are unemployed, reflecting the country's loss of competitiveness in the wake of the real-estate bubble inflated by cheap euro credit in the pre-crisis period.

The cumulative total since the beginning of the first crisis year (2008) means that Spain has financed its entire current-account deficit via the printing press.

It is now clear that the ECB itself has caused a large part of the capital flight from countries like Spain and Italy, because the cheap credit that it offered drove away private capital.

Spain, Argentina, and Germany, to name but a few countries, have put forward very young teams that have played an impressive game.

Unlike economic globalization, however, it remains to be seen whether this new, fast-paced style of soccer will prevail (after all, the young blood of Spain lost to the Old Boys of France).

They see new players (say, Spain) rising to shape EU policy, particularly foreign policy, and sense that their traditional leadership is being challenged.

Greece overspent, but Spain and Ireland had fiscal surpluses and low debt-to-GDP ratios before the crisis.

Moreover, fiscal and sovereign-debt strains are becoming worse as interest-rate spreads for Spain and Italy have returned to their unsustainable peak levels.

Indeed, the eurozone may require not just an international bailout of banks (as recently in Spain), but also a full sovereign bailout at a time when eurozone and international firewalls are insufficient to the task of backstopping both Spain and Italy.

The King of Spain provided stability and continuity after the end of Franco's dictatorship.

The Iraq War proved costly to American soft power, with the US losing about 30 percentage points of attractiveness on average in Europe, including in countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, whose governments supported the war.

In Spain, for example, local savings banks (cajas) financed an outsize real-estate boom.

Spain is taking global leadership in combating hunger by inviting world leaders to Madrid in late January to move beyond words to action.

Irish workers are leaving in droves to Canada, Australia, and the United States. Spanish workers are streaming into Romania, which until recently had been a major source of agricultural labor in Spain.

It had no choice: with financial turmoil threatening to spread from small countries like Greece and Ireland to large ones like Italy and Spain, the euro's very survival was in growing jeopardy.

In other countries, like Greece, as well as under regional administrations in Italy and Spain, a government-led hiring spree created secure jobs for the moderately educated.

The depth and gravity of the current economic and social crisis in countries like Greece, Portugal, and Spain present women with a new opportunity.

That reversal is one of the great under-reported stories of 2011 (and of the preceding two years), and the numbers are startling. Consider Spain, which is on track to lose more than a half-million residents by 2020.

By contrast, between 2002 and 2008, Spain's population grew by 700,000 a year, driven largely by immigration.

Spain, which allows for widespread temporary contracts, has had the biggest increase in unemployment, because Spanish workers can be fired as quickly as those in the US.

It simply does not and will never have enough funds to undertake the massive bond purchases required to stabilize the debt markets of large economies such as Spain and Italy.

These include epic crises in the Scandinavian countries, Spain, and Japan, along with lesser events such as the US savings and loan crises of the 1980's.

Spain, Greece, Portugal, and Ireland, in particular, allowed the low interest rates that accompanied the euro's introduction to fuel domestic booms.

The persistent loss in competitiveness over the past decade is one reason why the crisis is hitting some southern European EMU countries such as Spain and Italy so hard.

The Spanish government, for example, could have met Spain's building boom and foreign-trade deficit with tax increases or by urging domestic wage restraint.

In an ideal world, Europe would deal with its excessive debt burdens through a restructuring of Greek, Irish, and Portuguese liabilities, as well as municipal and bank debt in Spain.

The fall in property prices was modest relative to Ireland and Spain, and, because there was no construction boom, there was no construction bust.

Finally, Europe needs policies that restore competitiveness and growth to the eurozone's periphery, where GDP is either still contracting (Greece, Spain, and Ireland) or barely growing (Italy and Portugal).