Guernica

[ gwair-ni-kuh; Spanish ger-nee-kah ]

/ ˈgwɛər nɪ kə; Spanish gɛrˈni kɑ /

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noun

Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.

(italics) a painting (1937) by Pablo Picasso.

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How to use Guernica in a sentence

It was Dora Maar who found a studio large enough for Picasso to paint Guernica in.
Dora Maar's Anti-Fascist Worldview Influenced Picasso's Art|Ruth Millington|May 2, 2022|Time
We must also take into account his celebrated painting, completed just weeks before, Guernica.
Dora Maar's Anti-Fascist Worldview Influenced Picasso's Art|Ruth Millington|May 2, 2022|Time
Think about what would have happened to Picasso’s Guernica if it had been painted on a wall in New York City’s Times Square.
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I found brilliant online tours of the Reina Sofía, with a new archive of documents about Guernica, as well as a new virtual exhibit at the Prado Museum.
Real Madrid|Margery Resnick|April 28, 2021|MIT Technology Review

Late in the afternoon of April 26, 1937 waves of bombers obliterated the ancient capital of Basque Spain, Guernica.
Life Under Air Strikes: Children Under Fire Will Never Forget — or Forgive|Clive Irving|August 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Now those are destroyed, too, and the animals are strewn about, bloating and stinking, as if in a tableau of “Guernica.”
Inside the Gaza Schoolyard Massacre|Jesse Rosenfeld|July 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Anyway, Orner first published some of them as “Five Shards,” in the online magazine Guernica.
Intriguing, Humorous, Even Poetic: Peter Orner’s New Story Collection|Joseph Peschel|August 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
For ourselves, we turned our faces toward the centre of Vizcayan glory, the famous Tree of Guernica.
Spanish Highways and Byways|Katharine Lee Bates

British Dictionary definitions for Guernica

Guernica

/ (ɡɜːˈniːkə, ˈɡɜːnɪkə, Spanish ɡɛrˈnika) /

noun

a town in N Spain: formerly the seat of a Basque parliament; destroyed in 1937 by German bombers during the Spanish Civil War, an event depicted in one of Picasso's most famous paintings. Pop: 15 454 (2003 est)Basque name: Gernika

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