Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Speaking Spanish, especially as a first language or as the predominant language in a region.
- adjective Relating to Hispanophones or their culture.
- noun A Hispanophone person.
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- adjective
Spanish -speaking - noun A speaker of the
Spanish language
Etymologies
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Examples
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As for Kool-Aid, Guyana is an ENglish speaking country and has little in common culturally with Venezuela or other Hispanophone countries.
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Louise Pratt's "transculturation" is a more inclusive term, but one that neglects the AfroCaribbean or Afroamerican experience in relation to the Hispanophone world.
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Permanent mass Hispanophone immigration to the US was a localized thing until very recently: the cities of the Northeast, the immediate border areas with Mexico, and south Florida.
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A delightful, if trivial, story has emerged from the Colombian newspaper Cambio and the Spanish ABC links are for our Hispanophone readers via the EUObserver.
Maybe they should all arrange their own kidnapping Helen 2005
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The core of this squad is no longer Lusophone but Hispanophone: Cardozo and Saviola up front; Pablo Aimar, Javi Garcia and Nicolas Gaitan in midfield; Maxi Pereira and Ezequiel Garay in defence.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Somehow a starkly evul proponent of altruismo like me has made an impression on a Hispanophone Objetista.
SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists William Scott Scherk 2010
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A suitor has emerged in the form of a regional telecom that specializes in the Hispanophone market (double entendre intended), and which thinks it could boost Tempe subscriptions from the current several hundred to about 300 times that number.
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A suitor has emerged in the form of a regional telecom that specializes in the Hispanophone market (double entendre intended), and which thinks it could boost Tempe subscriptions from the current several hundred to about 300 times that number.
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A suitor has emerged in the form of a regional telecom that specializes in the Hispanophone market (double entendre intended), and which thinks it could boost Tempe subscriptions from the current several hundred to about 300 times that number.
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In the interdisciplinary course "Music From the Hispanophone Caribbean," Vazquez asks students to keep listening journals, which they share with classmates, to exchange responses to Latina / o music and draw connections to literature.
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Xenolinguaphobia persists in the United States, most overtly in hostility toward the use of Spanish, despite the fact that the United States, with more than 53 million Hispanophones, trails only Mexico as a Spanish-speaking nation.
The Fallacy of American Studies: A Conversation - Los Angeles Review of Books 2020
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