Latinx
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- noun
- /ləˈtɪnɛks/
- Neologism
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Latinx
- Not all U.S. Latinx workers are recovering from the Great Recession equally.
- Latinx community
- Latinx workers
- Latinx student
There is no superhero movie with Latinx as the lead, you know, and that's gigantic.
- There is no superhero movie with Latinx as the lead, you know, and that's gigantic.
Examples
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According to the most recent census, there were more than 14,000 Latinx-owned businesses in the Chicago area in 2016.
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So, Black, Latinx...
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Black, white, Latinx, it doesn't matter.
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Just because a Washington group tells you to use the word Latinx doesn't mean people use it.
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There is no superhero movie with Latinx as the lead, you know, and that's gigantic.
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Get it to play on the X, The Tinks luncheon, the Latinx collection luncheon.
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But the Latina turn out, Latinx turn out was up three times and the Asian American turn out was up six times over the last midterms.
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When looking at district measures that highlight racial disparities, we take into consideration that Black and Latinx students are far likelier than white students to live in poverty, to miss school because of illness, to live in bad housing, to be homeless, to have less access to medical care, and to live with tremendous economic insecurity.
Academic text (2018) -
Cuco is a Latinx singer-songwriter on the rise.
Synonyms
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2.1
A person who comes from Latin America
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3.2
A person in the United States whose family comes from a Spanish-speaking country, often from Latin America or Spain
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3.3
A woman from Latin America whose family comes from there
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word Latinx began as a new way to say Latino or Latina without referring to a man or a woman, using -x as a neutral ending. So, calling someone Latinx means they are a person of Latin American origin or descent in a 'gender-neutral' way.