Mexican
Noun pluralMexicans
PluralMexicans
- 1Coming from or having to do with the country of Mexico.
She comes from a Mexican family that settled in Texas.
The Mexican coastline stretches along two different oceans.
- 2Someone who comes from Mexico or whose family came from there.
A Mexican living in Chicago opened the new bakery downtown.
Many Mexicans crossed the border to visit relatives over the holidays.
- 3Food cooked in the style of Mexico, like tacos, beans, and tortillas.
We ordered Mexican for dinner and shared a big plate of enchiladas.
There is great Mexican on almost every corner of this city.
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- 4The kind of Spanish that people speak in Mexico.
She picked up Mexican while living in Oaxaca for a year.
His Mexican sounds different from the Spanish spoken in Spain.
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- 5An insulting word used for any Spanish-speaking person, even if they are not from Mexico.
He wrongly called the new student a Mexican, but her family was from Spain.
Some people lazily call all Spanish speakers Mexicans.
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- 6A person from the southern Australian states of New South Wales or Victoria.
Up in Queensland, they call anyone from Melbourne a Mexican.
The two Mexicans had driven north from Sydney for the weekend.
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- 7A person from the Australian state of Victoria.
His Melbourne accent gave him away as a Mexican.
The Mexicans from Geelong arrived early for the tournament.
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- 8A member of the Aztec people who ruled central Mexico long ago.
The old account told how a Mexican led the people to build their city on the lake.
The Aztecheſe, or Mexicans, were the laſt who arrived in Anahuac.
1782, review of Storia antica del Messico, in The Critical ReviewHere, Mexicans means the Aztec people of central Mexico.Note
- 9The language of the Aztec people, now generally called Nahuatl.
Painala was in the Mexican province of Coatzacualco: she was accordingly able to speak Mexican.
1856, Arthur Helps, The Spanish Conquest in AmericaHere, the second Mexican means the Aztec language, now called Nahuatl.Note
- 10Having to do with the Aztec people of central Mexico.
The Mexican rulers built their capital on an island in the lake.
Spanish soldiers wrote about the Mexican gods and temples.
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- 11Having to do with the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs.
The principal grain of Mexico, before the introduction of thoſe from Europe, was maize, in the Mexican language called tluolli, of which there were ſeveral kinds, different in ſize, weight, colour, and taſte.
1795, W. Winterbotham, An HistoricalHere, Mexican means having to do with the Aztec language, Nahuatl.Note
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Origin
It comes from Spanish mexicano, which came from the Nahuatl word mēxihcatl, meaning a Mexica person.