Puerto Rican
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2.1
- noun
- /ˈpwɛrtoʊ ˈriːkən/
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puertorriqueño
- Love the fact that you're a fellow Puerto Rican like myself, just living down here on the Enchanted Islands, loving the sun, all, all the beaches, all the good things and enjoying life.
- Puerto Rican culture
- Puerto Rican and Mexican
- Puerto Rican Americans
So political citizenship is about, for example, the right to vote, a right that Puerto Ricans, as we've just heard, don't really have.
- So political citizenship is about, for example, the right to vote, a right that Puerto Ricans, as we've just heard, don't really have.
- So and the Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, all of us, we, we are all the minorities.
- And I think, and I know it was because I was raised by by by men and women like that, just very loving, passionate Puerto Ricans.
- Love the fact that you're a fellow Puerto Rican like myself, just living down here on the Enchanted Islands, loving the sun, all, all the beaches, all the good things and enjoying life.
- It's anything stealing documents, Bludgeoning Puerto Ricans with paper towels.
- Mexican, Puerto Rican, African, we all come from the can can family.
- The New York City in which they grew up had been ruined, they insisted, by the Puerto Ricans.
- I mean, I could see maybe Cubans, I could see Puerto Ricans, maybe Nova Scotians or somebody would have to swim here.
- No, my wife is white Puerto Rican, but my first child is black and it's just I think you got Steve Nash.
- All my friends, Latinos, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Venezuelans, Haitians, Jamaicans, Jews, Catholics, Christians, whites, melting pot.
- I had different races, you know, Puerto Rican, Black, Asian. So you had all these different, you know, races, nationalities, religions, and
Examples
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Belaval proposed a very simple cultural project: he wanted Puerto Ricans to embrace cultural nationalism.
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Still, it wasn't all praise for the Puerto Rican family and critique for the American.
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I did not attempt to explain this to the New York Puerto Rican driver.
Academic text (1991) -
There is no doubt that all these families have a sense of Puerto Rican national consciousness.
Academic text (1991) -
Finally, the sample itself may not be entirely representative of Puerto Rican high school students.
Academic text (2008) -
There is a strong sentiment of Puerto Ricans being different from Americans.
Academic text (1991) -
So a very good friend of mine is a Puerto Rican immigrant who was adopted by Jewish American parents.
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The light in Fort Lauderdale reminded me of the clear yellow of a Puerto Rican morning.
Fiction book (2000) -
My girlfriend's Puerto Rican.
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In our city, many Puerto Ricans celebrate their culture with vibrant festivals.
Synonyms
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8.7
A person from Puerto Rico or whose family came from Puerto Rico
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2.9
A person born in Latin America or whose family comes from there
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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
Surface Forms
Morphology
Puerto + Rican
The phrase is a straightforward demonym formed from the place name Puerto Rico plus a resident-forming suffix, so its meaning (‘a person from Puerto Rico’) is directly and predictably derived from its parts. Demonym formation is a regular, cross-linguistic pattern (e.g., -an/-ian), so learners who recognize the place name or the demonymic pattern will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Puerto Rican comes from the island name Puerto Rico, which in Spanish means 'rich port'. One popular story says early Spanish sailors called the island that because it had a good port and some gold, and people from there became known as Puerto Ricans, so the term means 'someone from Puerto Rico'.