Spanish-america meaning

The former Spanish possessions in the New World, including most of South and Central America, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and other small islands in the Caribbean Sea.
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Mexico and those countries in Central and South America and islands in the Caribbean in which Spanish is the chief language.
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Hispanic America.
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Spanish-america Sentence Examples

  • Abbad makes extensive quotations from early historians of Spanish America.

  • The first named, which is poisonous in its native state, is the cassava of Spanish America.

  • The comedies of Segura on the customs of Lima society, entitled Un Paseo a Amancaes and La Saya y Manto, have no equal in the dramatic literature of Spanish America and few in that of modern Spain.

  • What the Spaniards had then overrun from Mexico to Chile is still Spanish America.

  • The brutality of some Spanish governors on the spot provoked anger The cortes assembled in Cadiz, being under the influence of the merchants and mob, could make no concessions, and all Spanish America flamed into revolt.

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