Spanish is the language of Spain and most of South America, and the adjective for Spain and its people. Learn Spanish, Spanish food, a Spanish town.
It is always capitalised. Spanish is the second most spoken first language in the world after Mandarin, with far more speakers in Latin America than in Spain. Castilian is the name for the standard variety, and Catalan, Galician and Basque are separate languages spoken in Spain. Note that Spanish uses inverted question and exclamation marks at the start of a sentence, which no other major language does.
1adjectivespanishBelonging to Spain or its people.
“The Spanish coastline runs for about five thousand kilometres.”
2nounlanguageThe language of Spain and most of Latin America.
“She learned Spanish in about eighteen months.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
spanish is a nationality or language.