"Spanish Empire" meaning in English

See Spanish Empire in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: the Spanish Empire [canonical]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun|def=1|head=Spanish Empire}} the Spanish Empire
  1. (historical) A colonial empire with its heartland in Spain that existed from 1492 to 1976. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-Spanish_Empire-en-name-cz8U-8jh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Colonialism, History of Spain, Spain
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Spanish Empire",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "def": "1",
        "head": "Spanish Empire"
      },
      "expansion": "the Spanish Empire",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Colonialism",
          "orig": "en:Colonialism",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "History of Spain",
          "orig": "en:History of Spain",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Spain",
          "orig": "en:Spain",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A colonial empire with its heartland in Spain that existed from 1492 to 1976."
      ],
      "id": "en-Spanish_Empire-en-name-cz8U-8jh",
      "links": [
        [
          "colonial empire",
          "colonial empire"
        ],
        [
          "heartland",
          "heartland"
        ],
        [
          "Spain",
          "Spain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A colonial empire with its heartland in Spain that existed from 1492 to 1976."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Spanish Empire"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Spanish Empire",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "def": "1",
        "head": "Spanish Empire"
      },
      "expansion": "the Spanish Empire",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Colonialism",
        "en:History of Spain",
        "en:Spain"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A colonial empire with its heartland in Spain that existed from 1492 to 1976."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "colonial empire",
          "colonial empire"
        ],
        [
          "heartland",
          "heartland"
        ],
        [
          "Spain",
          "Spain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A colonial empire with its heartland in Spain that existed from 1492 to 1976."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Spanish Empire"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Spanish Empire meaning in English (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (05c257f and 9d9a410). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.