Mexican Definition

mĕksĭ-kən
noun
A native or inhabitant of Mexico.
American Heritage
A person born or living in Mexico.
Webster's New World
Webster's New World
1677: Richard Gilpin, Daemonologia Sacra, or, a Treatise of Satans Temptations, pp. 255-256
Not unlike to this were thoſe morſels of Paſte, which the Mexicans uſed in their Religious Feaſts, which they laid at their Idols Feet, conſecrating them by Singing and other Ceremonies, and then they called them the Fleſh and Bones of their God Vitziliputzli.
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1782: review of Storia antica del Messico, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, vol. 54, p. 144
The Aztecheſe, or Mexicans, were the laſt who arrived in Anahuac.
Wiktionary
adjective
Of Mexico or its people, language, or culture.
Webster's New World
1810: review of "Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain", in The Eclectic Review.
The language most universally diffused over the new continent, is the Aztec or Mexican.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Mexican

Noun

Singular:
Mexican
Plural:
mexicans

Origin of Mexican

  • From Spanish Mexicano, from Nahuatl MÄ“xihcah plural of MÄ“xihcatl (“a Mexica") + -ano (“-an")

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