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Mexicano

American  
[me-hee-kah-noh, me-khee-kah-naw] / ˌmɛ hiˈkɑ noʊ, mɛ xiˈkɑ nɔ /

noun

  • Mexicanos
    plural
  1. the Nahuatl language.

  2. a Mexican citizen.


Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of Mexicano

From the Spanish word mexicano Mexican


Example Sentences

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Abogados Café & Como Park — Start your morning with a coffee — or, in my case, a Chocolate Mexicano — from Abogados Café before heading to nearby Como Park.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

He holds silver miner Industrias Penoles while Baillie Gifford’s Keiller owns Fomento Económico Mexicano, known as FEMSA, which operates a Coca-Cola bottler and has turned around its Oxxo convenience stores.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

Eight UPF manufacturers -- Nestle, PepsiCo, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Danone, Fomento Economico Mexicano, Mondelez, and Kraft Heinz -- accounted for 42 percent of the sector's $1.5 trillion in assets in 2021, the paper said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

“The time is now, ‘ya es tiempo,’ for our community to be taken into consideration and not be taken for granted,” said Jiménez, who co-founded Centro Cultural Mexicano alongside Hinojos in 2018.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

The driver's name was Jairo Hernandez, and he had been driving for Mexicano Taxi for seven years.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

She has said that Mexico’s shipments to Cuba are part of a sovereign decision by her government and based on contracts signed by Mexico’s state-run oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Estados Unidos Mexicanos thwart case-by-case determination of PLCAA’s applicability, a process that promotes careful explication of the law.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2025

A few days later, Moody’s rating service downgraded the debt of the national oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, even further into junk bond status.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

“As Mexicanos, he represented us,” added his friend Roberto Muñoz, a 66-year-old who grew up in Monterey Park but now resides in Claremont.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2023

There are the Americanos, the Mexicanos, the Englise, and the Tejanos.

From Bring Me His Ears by Clarence E. Mulford

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