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

President of Asturias Adrián Barbón ordered two days of mourning in the region.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2025

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

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

As a young man in the 1920s, Cesáreo Cardín Villa discovered a Neolithic cave near his town in Asturias filled with ancient paintings.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 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