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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

From a recording booth at Centro Cultural Mexicano, bilingual show “Radio Ya es Tiempo!” shares news and answers questions from the Eastside city’s residents.

From Seattle Times Oct. 15, 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

In 2004, he signed a 15-year contract with Mexico’s state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, to drill across the Rio Grande.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 12, 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

"Petroleos Mexicanos has not made any fuel donations to any foreign government," said Romero immediately after a lawmaker asserted that potential oil donations to Cuba could provoke sanctions against Mexico.

From Reuters Oct. 9, 2023

“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

The Presidente of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos personally took a plane to Washington, as did the Governor General of Canada, carrying a personal message from the Prime Minister.

From Hail to the Chief by Schoenherr, John

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