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/ˈfɝdɪˌnæn, ˈfɝdɪˌnænd/
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NOUN
- the king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella; his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in 1492 united Spain as one country; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1452-1516)
How To Use Ferdinand In A Sentence
- RIO FERDINAND loves a bit of grime and garage. The Sun
- Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's inspired idea was to make airships rigid, so superseding the early blimps, which were fatally vulnerable to leaks from the inflammable hydrogen used to inflate them.
- Dear me!" says Ferdinand, as he dropped his white hot pincers sizzlingly into a jar of water, "and I had hoped you would not be bothering me for a good ten years! Figures of Earth
- According to Rio Ferdinand, in an interview in last night's programme, the 23-year-old Ulsterman and the 21-year-old Englishman are "great young players with big futures at this club". Manchester United understudies pull the wool over Pep Guardiola's eyes | Richard Williams
- RIO FERDINAND loves a bit of grime and garage. The Sun
- Roland Barthes's semiology finds it foundation in the structural linguistic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure, who posited an abstract notion known as langue to explain the system of language.
- Ferdinand found Veron, who tricked, turned and slipped a pass inside his marker for Giggs.
- To say it has been a whirlwind for the 26-year-old would be like saying Franz Ferdinand's year was, well, fair to middling.
- Ferdinand's second goal put the game beyond doubt.
- A self-taught artist, Ferdinand achieves an appealing bluntness, with the detail and graphic quality of reportage, using watercolor, colored pencil and ballpoint pen.
