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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 show is produced at Centro Cultural Mexicano, which provides space for local artists, support for small business owners and community resources such as rental assistance and pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinics.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

I dial the number for Mexicano Taxi and make a special request for Jairo Hernandez.

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

“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

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has vowed to revive the fortunes of Pemex, as Petroleos Mexicanos is known, and reverse years of declining output at the world's most indebted oil company.

From Reuters ● Dec. 1, 2022

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 John Schoenherr

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