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mestizo
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Word definitions for mestizo in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Spanish mestizo "of mixed European and Amerindian parentage," from Late Latin mixticius "mixed, mongrel," from Latin mixtus "mixed," past participle of miscere "to mix, mingle" (see mix (v.)). Fem. form mestiza is attested from 1580s.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A knife-point poked into his back every few seconds, so he knew that the mestizo was close behind him. ▪ But the mestizo was a gangster and his prime loyalty would be to himself. ▪ He was waitin' fur us at the airport, a mean-faced ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mestizo (; Peninsular Spanish : , Latin American Spanish : ) is a term traditionally used in Spain and Spanish America to mean a person of combined European and Amerindian descent, or someone who would have been deemed a Castizo (one European parent and ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) [syn: ladino ] [also: mestizoes (pl)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mestizo \Mes*ti"zo\, n.; pl. Mestizos . [Sp. mestizo; akin to OF. mestis, F. m['e]tis; all fr. (assumed) LL. mixtitius, fr. L. mixtus mixed, p. p. of miscere to mix. See Mix , and cf. Mestee , M['E]tif , M['E]tis , Mustee .] The offspring ...
Usage examples of mestizo.
Diego Silang, a tao, led his brother taos in rebellion against their usurious mestizo oppressors,--and was murdered for his pains.
Assume for a moment that this mestizo woman is chasing after someone with a gun.
As he expected, he found no sign of Panchez nor any of the mestizo guards.
Andy hoped to find the mestizo leader engaged in excavating of his own.
Some monstrous shape that looked like a windmill off its moorings was falling toward Andy and his mestizo foemen.
They whirled, and Panchez saw the mestizo sprawl from a hard gun stroke.
AT the mouth of the pit, The Shadow encountered a rising mestizo who had picked that very refuge after the original fray.
It was The Shadow who held the pit, clinging to the rungs of a crude ladder that Andy had missed in his fall, but which the lurking mestizo had known about and used.
He had been attacked, flung into a pit by men who had been uncommonly like Panchez and the mestizo guards who had been hired to scour the jungle and keep trouble away.
Panchez was lying, and Andy knew it from the way the mestizo had averted his eyes.
He asked Panchez where the trouble had begun, and the mestizo shook his head.
Each statement now to follow comes, however, from a mestizo Filipino in high standing in the cacique ranks, whether in public life or in other fields.
He who comes straight out, as scarce a mestizo dares to come, and defies the Big Caciques to their teeth?
Christian Filipino--Malay tao or mestizo cacique--the man of the hot lowlands, whatever his blood.
Also, the secret service spy then watching us--a long, yellow mestizo with a half-Spanish face--squatted against the deck-house just ahead, listening backward like a cat.