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Hispanic

Hispanic \His*pan"ic\, a. [L. Hispanicus.] Of or pertaining to Spain or its language; as, Hispanic words.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Hispanic

"pertaining to Spain" (especially ancient Spain) 1580s, from Latin Hispanicus, from Hispania "Iberian Peninsula," from Hispanus "Spaniard" (see Spaniard). Specific application to Spanish-speaking parts of the New World is 1889, American English; especially applied since c.1972 to Spanish-speaking persons of Latin American descent living in U.S.

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Hispanic

The term Hispanic ( or , , , , hispàno) broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain. It commonly applies to countries once colonized by Spain in the Americas, particularly the countries of Latin America. It could be argued that the term should apply to all Spanish-speaking cultures or countries, as the historical roots of the word specifically pertain to the Iberian region. It is difficult to label a nation or culture with one term, such as Hispanic, as the ethnicities, customs, traditions, and art forms (music, literature, dress, architecture, cuisine, and others) vary greatly by country and region. The Spanish language and Spanish culture are the main traditions.

Hispanic originally referred to the people of ancient Roman Hispania, which roughly comprised the Iberian Peninsula including the contemporary states of Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Hispanic (disambiguation)

Hispanic means "of or from Spain". The term is commonly used to refer to the people and languages of what is now Spain from the historic period during the Roman Empire.

It may especially refer to:

  • Derived from the name of the Roman province of Hispania ( Modern day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar in the Iberian Peninsula).
  • Related to, or derived from, the Spanish people or the culture of Spain, Hispanidad or other Hispanophone countries.
  • Related to, or derived from, the countries and culture of the people of Hispanic America.
  • Related to, or derived from, Hispanic Americans living in the United States and their culture.
  • Relating to the Spanish and Mexican period of colonial rule in the Philippines.
  • Relating to the Spanish and Mexican derived influences on the Culture of the Philippines, but not in relation to said Filipino culture or the Filipino people, nor to that which derives from these.
Hispanic (magazine)

Hispanic was an American English-language magazine of pop culture, fashion, and politics published by Televisa Publishing. In 2008, it was the largest English language lifestyle magazine in the U.S. Hispanic market. The magazine was closed in 2010.

Usage examples of "hispanic".

It says little abour Hispanic history, for example, fet our textbooks are so Anglocentric that they might be considered Protestant history.

The place was one of a run of glossy new restaurants and boutiques on the old Hispanic strip, dotted in among the botanicas and social clubs, and the shuttered outlets full of dusty plastic furniture and out-of-date appliances.

Hispanic term for whatever interior disorder drives the addict back again and again to the enslaving Substance is tecato gusano, which apparently connotes some kind of interior psychic worm that cannot be sated or killed.

The Union of Hispanic Socialist Republics held the remains of North America in an iron grip and threatened an encircled Brazil, even with its Guianan allies.

The man was dressed in a dark gray suit and though his face was partly hidden by a sleeping mask, he looked to McGill to be Hispanic or maybe Mideastern or Indian.

Hispanics to send food and clothing to the Mexican town of Nayarit after the devastations of Hurricane Kenna had been stymied by the inefficiency and obduracy of the Mexican consulate.

Clare exits the Drive at Roosevelt and threads her way through Pilsen, a Hispanic neighborhood just south of downtown.

So if a certain segment of our market is Hispanic, we speak Spanish, carry products that appeal to Hispanics and get to know the culture, nuances and selling opportunities.

Your friend Perez is one of the new breed of college-educated Hispanic Rights activists crowding the landscape these days.

Hispanic felons, mostly poor, vote almost as solidly Democratic as African-Americans.

He was white, since these crimes tend to be intraracial, and since a black, Hispanic, or Asian would have stood out at the crime locations.

However, instead of staffing it with a Hispanic recruiter, the agency sent a sixty-year-old black male.

African-Americans, Hispanics and poor white folk, likely voters for Vice-President Gore.

The ordinance is a relic of Anglo defiance that offends many Hispanics, bilingual or not.

Outside ICU an Hispanic woman, a complete stranger, blundered into him and ran away before he could even ask what she thought she was doing there.