(n.) A native or inhabitant of Catalonia; also, the language of Catalonia.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(2) He describes it as "a sexual revolution: a young Catalan man meets a Flemish girl – they fall in love, they get married and they become European, as do their children."
(3) His message was echoed by Albert Royo, of Diplocat, the Catalan body responsible for public diplomacy.
(4) "One way or another, Catalans will vote," he said, noting that municipal and general elections were scheduled for 2015.
(5) The agreement between Junts pel Sí (Together for Yes), a coalition of the centre-right Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) party and leftist Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC) party, and the far-left minority partner Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) gives the separatist bloc a slim majority in the 135-seat Catalan parliament.
(6) The court, in a long and detailed judgment earlier this month, ruled against the Catalans, and managed to add insult to injury by stating that there was only one nation in Spain, and that was the Spanish nation, and that Catalonia, as a historical entity, had only come into being as a result of the Spanish constitution of 1978.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Barcelona coach, Luis Enrique, says he is sure striker Lionel Messi is happy at the Catalan club Sources close to Messi told the newspaper El Confidencial : “… there are other elite sportspeople who have tax problems and they’ve all been settled administratively, as was the case with Real Madrid players Xabi Alonso and Iker Casillas and tennis star Rafa Nadal.
(8) Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Barcelona on September 11 to demand independence, the biggest-ever show of support for a separate Catalan state.
(9) Only one thing could possibly bring such strange bed-companions together, and that is the push towards Catalan independence, with a stated target of 18 months.
(10) They may not be Kurds or Kosovans, but they have much in common with Basques, Bretons and Catalans.
(11) Flag-wrapping reached a new peak this week as Catalan nationalists vowed to hold a referendum on independence or the other options for changing the region's relationship with the rest of Spain – and central government vowed to stop them.
(12) Madrid had not beaten Barcelona by more than a solitary goal in the league since May 2008, the last clash of the pre-Pep Guardiola era at a time when the Catalans were collapsing.
(13) This is our attempt to be democratic in a state that doesn’t respect democracy.” For Jaume Marsany of the Catalan National Assembly, a grassroots, pro-independence group, it was an extraordinary day.
(14) Later that day, over dinner in a private Catalan castle, I am sitting opposite Hollywood's Heather Graham and Jason Silva, her film-producer boyfriend, who have also flown in for the feast, watching as the star of Boogie Nights and The Hangover delicately transfers her food from her plate to her partner's.
(15) The far rightwing La Gaceta on a front page editorial heaped insults on the politicians who had voted for the ban, singling out the man who is likely to become the next Catalan president as "a separatist who hates everything Spanish".
(16) Hundreds packed into Girona’s Independence Square at a rally for leftwing pro-independence party Catalan Republican Left to hear leader Oriol Junqueras urging residents to support independence.
(17) Therapy was carried out in only one language, namely Catalan.
(18) I usually have meetings with my group (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe), with the European commission and the European central bank … I get a lot of petitions from fishermen, cattle breeders and other collectives because in Catalonia it's quite a traditional move to contact a politician from the Convergence [party which is the opposition to the Catalan government].
(19) Josep Lluís Cusidó, mayor of the small Catalan town of Vallmoll, was at the museum as part of a wedding anniversary trip with his wife.
(20) According to the newspaper, the back of the shirt will also incorporate the Catalan flag, as featured on the club’s fourth kit this season.
Spanish
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
(n.) The language of Spain.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the oldest medical journal in South America and the second in antiquity published in Spanish, after the Gaceta de México.
(2) MI6 introduced him to the Spanish intelligence service and in 2006 he travelled to Madrid.
(3) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(4) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(5) The Mexican-Americans of Starr County, Texas, classified by sex and birthplace, were studied to determine the extent of genetic variation and contributions from ancestral populations such as Spanish, Amerindian and West African.
(6) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(7) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
(8) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(9) On 26 April 1937 this market town was obliterated in three hours of bombing by Nazi planes, allies of Generalísimo Francisco Franco’s fascists in the Spanish civil war.
(10) The competition comes a month after the Spanish government put forward legislation that aims to sharply limit women's access to abortion across the country.
(11) The only Spanish voice heard in Catalonia is that of the Madrid government, which seems oblivious to the implications of the groundswell of pro-independence sentiment, much as at Westminster politicians missed the shift in Scottish opinion until just before the referendum.
(12) The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory questionnaire, recently validated in Spanish, was used to measure the students' anxiety associated with the examinations.
(13) Zidane’s first game proper will be on Saturday at home against Deportivo La Coruna in the Spanish league.
(14) Picardo said that he was in frequent "fluid" contact with local politicians in the Spanish border town of La Linea and other areas where the more than 4,000 Spaniards who work in the peninsula live.
(15) The genetic distances separating 14 Spanish goat breeds are calculated from gene frequency data of 14 genetic blood markers (GSH, Ke, Hb, Dia, Ct, MDH, CA, X, NP, Alp, Am, Cp, Tf and Al).
(16) The Cape Ray, a 648ft converted car ferry, has been waiting at the Spanish port of Rota for four months for the extraction of chemical weapons from Syria to be completed.
(17) Parents appear at provincial court in Málaga, part of the process to transfer them to the Spanish capital, Madrid, for extradition hearing on Monday.
(18) Spanish renaissance In contrast, Spanish has held up remarkably well, due to its resilience at GCSE and growing awareness of the number of people around the world who speak it.
(19) • The Spanish government has warned the US that revelations of widespread spying by the National Security Agency could, if confirmed, “ lead to a breakdown in the traditional trust ” between the two countries.
(20) Miklos Haraszti, whom I encountered in Budapest, had the looks of a small Spanish grandee in some Velázquez painting; dark, unnervingly handsome, serene.