Asturias

American  

[a-stoor-ee-uhs, a-styoor-, ahs-too-ryahs] / æˈstʊər i əs, æˈstyʊər-, ɑsˈtu ryɑs /

noun

1. Miguel Ángel 1899–1974, Guatemalan novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1967.

2. a former kingdom and province in NW Spain.

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Asturias ¹ British  

/ æˈstʊərɪˌæs /

noun

1. a region and former kingdom of NW Spain, consisting of a coastal plain and the Cantabrian Mountains: a Christian stronghold against the Moors (8th to 13th centuries); rich mineral resources

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Asturias ² British  

/ æˈstʊərɪˌæs /

noun

1. Miguel Ángel. 1899–1974, Guatemalan novelist and poet. His novels include El Señor Presidente (1946). Nobel prize for literature 1967

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Example Sentences

Take Cabrales, a blue cheese crafted by rural dairy farmers in Asturias, Spain, which captures the verdant essence of grazing cows thriving in lush pastures.

From Salon • Oct. 3, 2024

Her royal duties then came to the fore as she presided over her own Princess of Asturias awards on 20 October.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2023

Murakami spoke to the AP this week before he received Spain’s Princess of Asturias prize for literature in the northern Spanish city of Oviedo.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2023

A bus packed with tourists en route to a popular nature spot in northern Spain's Asturias region plunged off a mountain road on Monday, leaving several people seriously injured, emergency services said.

From Reuters • Jul. 31, 2023

And the mountain provinces of Galicia and the Asturias, of idyllic hill and dale, yet with seaports fast awakening to commercial life, look with little sympathy on the sluggish province of Le�n that borders them.

From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle