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Mexico

Mexico

1.0
A country in North America south of the United States
  • proper noun
  • /ˈmɛksɪkoʊ/
translation icon : México
  • In other words, if the United States stopped importing drugs, Mexico's drug violence would shrink dramatically.
  • border with Mexico
  • Mexico and the US
  • Mexico City

I know that from actually Baja, Mexico on the beach.

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Examples

  • Yes, sir, welcome to Mexico.

  • Even little kids in Mexico drink coffee.

  • I think it's the roads in Mexico, not my driving stop.

  • Guess what they found in Mexico decades ago?

  • And yet now, outside of Mexico, he is hardly known at all.

  • We have been trying for years in Mexico to change the legal framework.

  • This is the wall that separates Mexico and the US.

  • Let's go down to Mexico and catch another marlin.

  • This sauce, my friend, is from Mexico, where burritos are born.

  • Her parents brought her to the United States from Mexico when she was a child.

Synonyms

United Mexican States
vsMexico
  • Formal
3.8

The official name of Mexico

means the same country but under its common short name

Compounds

66 1.0

The capital of Mexico and the country's largest city

A large part of the Atlantic Ocean south of the United States and east of Mexico

The capital and largest city of Mexico where many people live and work

Surface Forms

Mexico main

Etymology

Mexico comes from the old Nahuatl name Mēxihco, meaning 'place of the Mexica', the people who lived around the great city there. So the country's name simply comes from the people and their land.