Mexican
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- noun
- /ˈmɛksɪkən/
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mexicano
- Many Mexicans celebrate the Day of the Dead with colorful altars and festivities.
- Americans and Mexicans
- Canadians and Mexicans
- Cubans and Mexicans
You know, I would like to be Mexican, probably be fun.
- You know, I would like to be Mexican, probably be fun.
- How do you get Japanese, Blacks, Mexicans, other people?
- It was, it was a Mexican president there too.
- It's not like it's Mexicans or Colombians, right?
- OK, so Mexicans like, so I have milk cricket.
- Now it's it's it's Mexicans, Hispanics.
Examples
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Chicago is now home to nearly as many Mexicans as live in the entire state.
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With the Mexican Revolution, however, many Mexicans fled the turmoil of the revolution and crossed the border.
Academic text (1990) -
I think she was a Mexican girl at the airport.
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There was obviously a long standing large scale Mexican migration to the US.
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My dad is a full blooded Mexican man.
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Eventually, he would be arrested by Mexican authorities in Puerto Vallarta.
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In the end, this is the central issue Mexicans and their neighbors to the north must face.
Academic text (1993) -
Poll data suggests that Mexicans may value order and strong government more than open democracy.
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An opinion poll in late 1998 suggested nine out of ten Mexicans support adopting the dollar.
Academic text (1999) -
My friend is a Mexican who loves to share his culture with others.
Synonyms
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A person from Mexico or with Mexican family who lives in the United States
Compounds
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3.1
A person who lives in the United States and was born in Mexico or has family from Mexico
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5.5
A war between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 that gave the United States new lands
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5.2
A war between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 that gave the United States large Southwest lands
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5.0
A ten year period of fighting in Mexico from 1910 to 1920 led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata
The capital city of Mexico, called Mexico City, where the government and main businesses are
A tall evergreen tree from Mexico with drooping branches often grown in gardens
A tropical American plant with poisonous sap and bright red leaf-like bracts surrounding small yellow flowers
A small bat with short soft fur that migrates south in winter in the southern United States and Central America
A large lizard from western Mexico that can give a dangerous bite and has small round scales like beads
A small insect that eats the leaves of bean plants and often damages bean crops
A plant that produces small edible fruits like tiny tomatoes inside a dry papery husk
A large tree with a thick trunk that grows near rivers and lakes in central Mexico
Wood from large trees that grow near rivers in Mexico used for furniture and boats
A plant from Mexico that lives for years and has pink to red flowers used in gardens and medicine
A small tree with spreading branches and drooping twigs that grows in western Texas and the mountains of Mexico
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A herb from Oaxaca, Mexico that can make you see or feel things that are not real
A small pine tree from Mexico and southern Texas with edible seeds and short needles
A small rodent from Mexico with fur lined cheek pouches for carrying food
A flowering plant with bright yellow flowers and blue-grey divided leaves
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A strong sleeping drug often sold illegally and used to make people very sleepy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mexican comes from the country name Mexico plus the ending -an, which means 'from' or 'of', so a Mexican is a person 'from Mexico'.