Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A native or inhabitant of Mexico.
- adj. Of or relating to Mexico or its people, language, or culture.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Native or pertaining to Mexico, a republic lying south of the United States, or to its inhabitants
- n. A native or an inhabitant of Mexico.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A Mexica; an Aztec.
- n. obsolete The Nahuatl language.
- n. A person from Mexico or of Mexican descent.
- n. US, slang, offensive A person from, or of descent from, any Spanish-speaking country.
- n. The Mexican dialect of Spanish.
- n. Australia, slang, Queensland A person from either of the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria.
- adj. obsolete Of or pertaining to the Mexica people.
- adj. obsolete Of or pertaining to the Nahuatl language.
- adj. Of, from, or pertaining to Mexico.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to Mexico or its inhabitants
- n. a native or inhabitant of Mexico
Etymologies
- From Spanish Mexicano, from Nahuatl Mēxihcah plural of Mēxihcatl ("a Mexica") + -ano ("-an") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“JORGE CASTANEDA, FORMER MEXICAN FOREIGN MINISTER: We come up with sensible immigration reform in the United States, that the Mexican government can cooperate with.”
“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.”
“Both Carlos specifically mention the ways in which white residents use the term Mexican in a derogatory fashion in order to belittle them.”
“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.”
The Washington Post: Clinton vows support for Mexico in drug war, urges progress on rights
“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.”
“She told Daniel that the word "Mexican" is offensive.”
The Huffington Post: Gustavo Arellano: Ask A Mexican!: Is "Mexican" an Offensive Word?
“Daniel asked if she meant the column, "¡Ask a Mexican¡" and she said, yes, sort of, but that the word "Mexican" is offensive.”
The Huffington Post: Gustavo Arellano: Ask A Mexican!: Is "Mexican" an Offensive Word?
“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.”
“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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