Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or resident of Spanish descent living in the southwest United States.
- noun A Hispanic.
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- noun slang A
Hispanic , a person of Spanish descent. - noun A person from Spain.
- adjective of Spanish descent
Etymologies
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Examples
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Creoles, whom I may call Hispano – Americans, * form in Mexico nearly a fifth, and in the island of Cuba, according to the very accurate enumeration of 1801, a third of the whole population.
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The white Creoles, whom I may call Hispano-Americans, *
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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"Hispano," says Livy, "punctim magis, quam caesim, adsueto petere hostem, brevitate habiles [gladii] et cum macronibus."
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827
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The figure included sales of Tata Daewoo and Tata Hispano Carrocera commercial vehicles.
Tata February Global Vehicle Sales Up 14% Santanu Choudhury 2011
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Apart from the company's local operations, he also headed its overseas units including the U.K.-based luxury car brands Jaguar and Land Rover, Hispano Carrocera SA, the Spanish bus maker it completed acquiring in October 2009, and South Korean venture Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Co.
Tata Motors CEO Carl-Peter Forster Resigns Anirban Chowdhury 2011
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It has to be one of the most multi-cultural venues in New York history: According to Harlem historian Jonathan Gill, it was owned by an "Irish Catholic fraternal organization," then by a Yiddish actor named Max Wilner, and by 1940 it had become the Hispano, one of the city's major Spanish cinemas.
Uptown Theaters Followed a Spiritual Path Will Friedwald 2011
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It has to be one of the most multi-cultural venues in New York history: According to Harlem historian Jonathan Gill, it was owned by an "Irish Catholic fraternal organization," then by a Yiddish actor named Max Wilner, and by 1940 it had become the Hispano, one of the city's major Spanish cinemas.
Uptown Theaters Followed a Spiritual Path Will Friedwald 2011
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Hispano-Moresque more technically classified the Big
CHAPTER II 2010
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The figure includes sales of Tata Daewoo and Tata Hispano Carrocera commercial vehicles.
Tata Motors June Sales Fall 1% Nikhil Gulati 2011
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By the end of Mr. Wheelwright's book, we're listening to a Hispano rancher tell a hippyish rebbe how his grandfather "went overboard with cleanliness," said fastidiousness being evidence for suppressed Judaism.
The Genetic Outlier Charles C. Mann 2012
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