noun
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the Spanish dialect of Castile; the standard form of European Spanish
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a native or inhabitant of Castile
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Castilian
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“No one doubts that the language is called Spanish or Castilian. Our constitution says Castilian, and in the Americas they say Castilian or Spanish,” he added.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
The locals, who may not have been literate, likely told their responses to the surveyors, who wrote them down in old Castilian.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 4, 2022
If we are to believe Mr. Hemingway, high adventure and a lust for blood fuse in the Castilian bullring.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
I assumed that I had misunderstood what we ordered, but the one word I had distinctly been able to pick out in the machine-gun fire of Castilian vocabulary, was "tortilla."
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2020
It was like a heavy shaking of talcum powder in the brain hearing all those mothers complimenting each other’s daughters and lisping back in good Castilian to the Sisters of the Merciful Mother.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Sallow Castilians slapped their thighs and swore that Por Dios, Juan had done it again!
From Time Magazine Archive
Castilians, who manage to scratch a living from the harsh earth, are a tough, grave and proud people.
From Time Magazine Archive
Basques, Asturians, Castilians, it said, "bear the unmistakable imprint of their Visigoth origin."
From Time Magazine Archive
All the Andalusian towns were wholly or in part emptied of their Mohammedan population when taken by the Christians, and repeopled with Castilians and others from Northern Spain.
From Southern Spain by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Calvert
Thou seest, Beatriz, that the Castilians and the Aragonese spring from the same source, and have the same habits and prejudices.
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper
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