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Latin America
[ lat-n uh-mer-i-kuh ]
noun
- the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
Latin America
noun
- those areas of America whose official languages are Spanish and Portuguese, derived from Latin: South America, Central America, Mexico, and certain islands in the Caribbean
Latin America
- A term applied to all of the Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking nations south of the United States.
Other Words From
- Latin A·meri·can adjective noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of Latin America1
Example Sentences
Similar stories plague many parts of Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Asia.
In fact, beer prices in Panama are about 36 percent lower than anywhere else in Latin America.
Panamanians are by far the biggest beer consumers in Latin America, but not when it comes to the good stuff.
In Latin America and Europe, 67 percent of respondents agreed that “gays should be free to live their own lives.”
Data are much better for Europe and Latin America, and frustratingly uneven for Africa and much of Asia.
Among the many topics which will suggest themselves for discussion are these: What can be said of education in Latin America?
They are much more likely to become free states in some comprehensive alliance with both English-speaking and Latin America.
You hear of "concessions" to foreign capitalists in Latin America.
You mustn't forget that in all previous experiences in Latin America we ourselves have been as much to blame as anybody else.
The fundamental difficulties in Mexico were not peculiar to that country nor indeed to Latin-America.
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