mexican
//ˈmɛksɪk(ə)n//
Forms
- Plural
- mexicans
- Comparative
- more mexican
- Superlative
- most mexican
Definitions
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.A Victorian (a person from the state of Victoria).(slang)
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.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.
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.