Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person of mixed racial ancestry, especially of mixed European and Native American ancestry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The offspring of a person of mixed blood; especially, a person of mixed Spanish and American Indian parentage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Spanish America The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.
- noun wool imported from South America, and produced by mixed breeds of sheep.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He's better off passing as a Latin American mestizo bobbylee Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05: 26 PM EST
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He's better off passing as a Latin American mestizo
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The bureau now recognizes peoples who are traditionally viewed (using arbitrary criteria) as indigenous in Mexico, Central and South America, but it does not recognize those who are considered "mestizo" -- peoples who are at least part, if not primarily, native.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez 2010
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According to CIA statistics (Mexico has none), 90 percent of Mexicans are mestizo, which is another way of saying brown.
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Among the participants, 28/31 (90%) were male, 25/31 (81%) were self-identified as mestizo, and 19/31 (61%) had an education above high school.
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MEXICO CITY -- The historical election of the first "mestizo" to the White House would go a long way toward redeeming the promise of the United States in the eyes of the world, particularly after the truly ruinous Bush tenure.
Nathan Gardels: Global Reactions to Obama Victory from Moscow to Beijing to Muslim World 2008
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In the Tropic photo their physical appearance though not necessarily their actual lineage could be described as more 'mestizo', in contrast to a more Afro-Latino look.
Castro, Cuba, the Americas: next door, yet so far away Marian 2008
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A study through genetics has come up with how the 'mestizo' characteristics in Latin America came about.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Science/Nature | Study unlocks Latin American past 2008
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Science/Nature | Study unlocks Latin American past 2008
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The vast majority of Mexicans are "mestizo" (of mixed European and indigenous blood).
Happy Columbus Day 2000
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But like all other race-based labels, the mestizo is a social construct, not a well-defined scientific category of people who share similar genetic characteristics.
How the mixed-race mestizo myth warped science in Latin America Emiliano Rodríguez Mega 2023
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