Palencia

American  

[puh-len-shuh, pah-len-thyah] / pəˈlɛn ʃə, pɑˈlɛn θjɑ /

noun

1. a city in Castilla y León, N Spain.

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Palencia British  

/ paˈlenθia /

noun

1. a city in N central Spain: earliest university in Spain (1208); seat of Castilian kings (12th–13th centuries); communications centre. Pop: 81 378 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

The game then ended in an unforgettable fashion for Venezuelans—a ninth-inning hit that gave their team a 3-2 lead and then pitching by Daniel Palencia that sealed the game, striking out the last American batter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Barrera and Moreno are also nominated in the songwriter of the year category alongside Felipe González Abad, Manuel Lorente Freire, Horacio Palencia and Elena Rose.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023

Irma Palencia, head of the tribunal, said the document cited was from a lower authority, but could not yet comment on its contents.

From Reuters • Aug. 29, 2023

When asked by reporters about the prosecutor’s move against Mr. Arévalo’s party, Irma Elizabeth Palencia, the election authority’s leader, said, “It is definitely something that worries us.”

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2023

Brother Fray Joseph de Palencia, acolyte, of the convent of San Pablo, of Valladolid.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various