Definitions
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- proper n. Those parts of the Americas which speak Spanish or Portuguese, Latin-derived languages: South America, Central America, Mexico, and most islands of the Carribean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- proper n. That part of the American continents that speak Spanish, Portuguese, or French; the part of the American continents south of the United States.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the parts of North America and South America to the south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken
Etymologies
Examples
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Our colleague Robert Levine, author of The Geography of Time, says that most of Latin America is dominated by a different way of timekeeping.
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In Chapter Two Shinners-Vree charted his travels to Latin America and noted that an unusually high concentration of mind-altering plants are indigenous to the New World.
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Curanderos traditional practitioners of mental health are widely found throughout Latin America and the American Southwest.
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In dozens of other countries, from Latin America to the Philippine Islands, there was a stunning renaissance of democracy and economic freedom.
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The first order from outside Latin America came from Togo for three Xavantes in November 1976.
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Jose Guerra, a former Central Bank official who teaches economics at the Central University of Venezuela, said he expects annual inflation - already the highest in Latin America - to near 35 percent this year.
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Within the White House there were other men who engaged with the president on foreign policy: Ralph Dungan, Richard Goodwin, and Arthur Schlesinger all got themselves involved in Latin America issues, for example.
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As the delegations melted away from the General Assembly, I caucused with Guatemalan foreign minister Gert Rosenthal, an experienced UN hand, whom I knew from Bush 41 when he headed the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ECLAC in Santiago, Chile.
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He generally supported his staff and some, like Latin America policy expert Robert Pastor, developed their own relationships with the president.
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Australia believes that our relationship with South America or Latin America is frankly under-done, and I'll be the first
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