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Definition of Kingdom of Spain
1. Noun. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power.
Geographical relationships: Auto-da-fe, Spanish Civil War, Galician, Spanish, Catalan, Paella, Sangaree, Sangria, Basque Fatherland And Liberty, Basque Homeland And Freedom, Eta, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, First Of October Antifascist Resistance Group, Grapo, Amigo, Conquistador, Criollo, Don Juan, Duenna, Grand Inquisitor
Group relationships: Common Market, Ec, Eec, Eu, Europe, European Community, European Economic Community, European Union, Nato, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Terms within: Andalucia, Andalusia, Capital Of Spain, Madrid, Spanish Capital, Balearic Islands, Majorca, Canaries, Canary Islands, Barcelona, Cadiz, Cartagena, Cordoba, Cordova, Jerez, Jerez De La Frontera, Leon, Malaga, Oviedo, San Sebastian, Sevilla, Seville, Toledo, Aragon, Saragossa, Zaragoza, Castile, Castilla, Catalonia, Galicia, Valencia, Lusitania, Cantabrian Mountains, Cape Trafalgar, Ebro, Ebro River, Pyrenees, Sierra Nevada, Tagus, Tagus River
Generic synonyms: European Country, European Nation
Group relationships: Iberia, Iberian Peninsula, Europe
Specialized synonyms: Logrono
Member holonyms: Basque, Spaniard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kingdom Of Spain
Literary usage of Kingdom of Spain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. House (1837)
"... in trust to the United States as actuary of said office. as consular and
commercial agent at Cadiz, in the kingdom of Spain, in the revolutionary war, ..."
2. English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious by George Crabb (1883)
"... and the Mogul empire, which arc composed of different nations : and, on the
other hand, the kingdom of Spain, of Portugal, of France, and of England, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"We do not know that it can be said with truth, that King William was under any
obligation to support the emperor's claims to the kingdom of Spain, ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... kingdom of Spain, bounded N. by Catalonia, E. and SE by the Mediterranean, SW
by Murcia, W. by New Castile, and N. "W. by Aragon ; area, ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"of Public Debt of the Island of Cuba at Havana, and an officer in the employment
of the Kingdom of Spain, at Havana, had charge of the public funds and ..."
6. History of Spain and Portugal by Samuel Astley Durham (1854)
"... kingdom of Spain. The extinction of the Roman sway, and the subjection of the
Suevi, rendered him absolute lord of the country. ..."
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