Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Mexico.
- noun A person of Mexican ancestry.
- adjective Of or relating to Mexico or its people, language, or culture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Native or pertaining to Mexico, a republic lying south of the United States, or to its inhabitants
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Mexico.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people.
- adjective (Bot.) a tropical American herb of the Poppy family (
Argemone Mexicana ) with much the look of a thistle, but having large yellow or white blossoms. - adjective (Bot.) an aromatic kind of pigweed from tropical America (
Chenopodium ambrosioides ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
Mexica ; anAztec . - noun obsolete The
Nahuatl language. - noun A person from
Mexico or of Mexican descent. - noun US, slang, offensive A person from, or of descent from, any Spanish-speaking country.
- noun The Mexican dialect of
Spanish . - noun Australia, slang, Queensland A person from either of the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria.
- adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to the
Mexica people. - adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to the
Nahuatl language. - adjective Of, from, or pertaining to
Mexico .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to Mexico or its inhabitants
- noun a native or inhabitant of Mexico
Etymologies
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Examples
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JORGE CASTANEDA, FORMER MEXICAN FOREIGN MINISTER: We come up with sensible immigration reform in the United States, that the Mexican government can cooperate with.
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CARLOS DE ICAZA, MEXICAN AMBASSADOR: We don't have any information or any evidence that can substance it, the fact that are there Mexican military persons.
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Both Carlos specifically mention the ways in which white residents use the term Mexican in a derogatory fashion in order to belittle them.
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It also doesn't do anything to highlight the pervading racism throughout the U.S. which has come to understand the term Mexican as implicitly derogatory thus effectively erasing the huge contributions which Mexicans and Mexican-Americans have made to the United States.
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Daniel asked if she meant the column, "¡Ask a Mexican¡" and she said, yes, sort of, but that the word "Mexican" is offensive.
Gustavo Arellano: Ask A Mexican!: Is "Mexican" an Offensive Word? Gustavo Arellano 2011
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Urged by U.S. officials not to offend a wartime ally, the papers stopped using the word "Mexican" and, with a wink and a nod, warned instead of "zoot suiters."
Hep Cats, Street Fights Eric Felten 2011
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But tensions have risen with the release of State Department cables by the group WikiLeaks that show U.S. officials frustrated with what they call Mexican law enforcement agencies' infighting, corruption and inability to develop intelligence.
Clinton vows support for Mexico in drug war, urges progress on rights Mary Beth Sheridan 2011
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Inspired by the "magic realism" common in Latin American literature, A Day Without a Mexican is a modern fable in which all of the Hispanics in California vanish overnight.
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She told Daniel that the word "Mexican" is offensive.
Gustavo Arellano: Ask A Mexican!: Is "Mexican" an Offensive Word? Gustavo Arellano 2011
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I'm not sure how I want to say this but here goes, the US Americanos may as well get used to it, the Mexican is here to stay, legal or illegal.
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