Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A country of south-central North America. Southern Mexico was the site of various advanced civilizations beginning with the Olmec and including the Maya, Zapotec, Toltec, Mixtec, and Aztec cultures. Mexico was conquered by Cortés in 1521 and held by the Spanish until 1821. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican War (1846-1848) awarded all lands north of the Rio Grande to the United States. Mexico City is the capital and the largest city. Population: 109,000,000.
- Gulf ofMexico An arm of the Atlantic Ocean in southeast North America bordering on eastern Mexico, the southeast United States, and Cuba. It connects with the Atlantic Ocean through the Straits of Florida and with the Caribbean Sea through the Yucatán Channel.
Wiktionary
- n. A country in North America. Official name: Estados Unidos Mexicanos (United Mexican States).
- n. rare An alternative name for Mexico City.
- n. A state in Mexico. Capital: Toluca.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810
Etymologies
- From Spanish, from Nahuatl mexihco, describing the Mexica (Aztecs). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — A BP spokesman says a second, smaller oil containment box known as a "top hat" is being brought to the site of a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.”
The Huffington Post: Gulf Oil Spill: 2nd 'Top Hat' Containment Box Is On Its Way To Leak
“ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) -- Crews moved closer to a final seal on BP's blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico after pumping fresh cement into the top of the well to hold down mud that is stopping the seafloor gusher.”
“ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (Associated Press) - The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble ...”
The Huffington Post: Bubble Of Methane Triggered Gulf Oil Rig Blast
“ON THE GULF OF MEXICO - A BP-chartered vessel lowered a 100-ton concrete-and-steel vault onto a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, an important step in a delicate and unprecedented attempt to stop most of the gushing crude fouling the sea.”
The Huffington Post: Oil Spill: Concrete Box To Contain Spill Touches Down On Gulf Floor
“ON THE GULF OF MEXICO - A BP-chartered vessel lowered a 100-ton concrete-and-steel vault onto a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, ...”
The Huffington Post: Oil Spill: Concrete Box To Contain Spill Touches Down On Gulf Floor
“ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (Associated Press) - The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to interviews with rig workers conducted during BP's internal investigation.”
The Huffington Post: Bubble Of Methane Triggered Gulf Oil Rig Blast
“ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to interviews with rig workers conducted during BP's internal investigation.”
The Huffington Post: Gulf Oil Spill Rig Explosion: New Details Emerge
“ON THE GULF OF MEXICO mdash; The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane ...”
The Huffington Post: Gulf Oil Spill Rig Explosion: New Details Emerge
“ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — A novel but risky attempt to use a 100-ton steel-and-concrete box to cover a deepwater oil well gushing toxic crude into the Gulf of Mexico was aborted Saturday after ice crystals encased it, an ominous development as thick blobs of tar began washing up on Alabama's white sand beaches.”
“ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) -- Engineers prepared to abandon their vigil over BP's broken oil well Friday as ships and rig workers evacuated the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Tropical Storm Bonnie.”
The Huffington Post: Gulf Oil Efforts Abandoned And Unmonitored Due To Bad Weather
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Mexico’.
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Nahuatl
"Spanish náhuatl, from Nahuatl, that which pleases the ear, from nahua-, audible, intelligent, clear."
- etymology from The American Heritage Dictionary
Nahuatl, Zapotec, Aztec, avocado, guacamole, amole, atlatl, axolotl, black sapote, cacao, cacomistle, chayote and 77 more...
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Show me Missouri
Missouri, missouri, Mark Twain, Joplin, Kansas City, Saint Louis, Mizzou, tigers, MO, Ozarks, barbecue, Hallmark Cards and 67 more...
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Apples to Apples: Red Cards
A complete list of the red cards (things) from the popular word game.
bad haircut, carnival workers, grave robbers, Chinatown, a cheap motel, killer whales, UV rays, flat tire, Japan, Michelangelo, Alfred Hitchcock, Cindy Crawford and 734 more...
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Countries of the Day
United States of ..., India, Saint Kitts and N..., Qatar, Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Herzeg..., Australia, Mexico, Uruguay, Mozambique, United Kingdom, Serbia and 48 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for Mexico.
fbharjo from Nahuatl 'Mexihco'
in the navel/in the middle of the moon?? Oct 2, 2010