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mexican

//ˈmɛksɪk(ə)n//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Note for mexican

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
mexicans

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative
more mexican
Superlative
most mexican

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.A person from, or of descent from, any Spanish-speaking country.(offensive)

    • Fox News issued an apology on Sunday for an on-screen graphic that mistakenly indicated President Donald Trump was reducing aid to "three Mexican countries."
    • What kind of Mexican are you?
  2. 2.A Victorian (a person from the state of Victoria).(slang)

  3. 3.A person from the country of Mexico or of Mexican descent.

    • The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.
    • When Google announced it was complying with US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, many Mexicans responded with a laugh and a long, exhausted sigh.
  4. 4.The Mexican dialect of Spanish.

    • You really scare me when you speak Mexican.
    • DON COLLIER: Hey, you want to talk Mexican, join another tank, a Mexican tank.
    • "You see, I never learned to speak Spanish, but speak Mexican fluently," he says disarmingly.

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

  1. 1.Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Mexico.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #2891

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mexicano, from Nahuatl mēxihcah plural of mēxihcatl (“a Mexica”) + -ano (“-an”).

By surface analysis, Mexico + -an.

Doublet of Mexicano.

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