Mestizo

//mɛsˈtiː.zo// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage. US
  2. 2
    a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) wordnet
  3. 3
    A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Austronesian Filipino and Spanish or Chinese ancestry, such as that of the Spanish mestizos and Chinese mestizos from the Spanish Colonial Era of the Philippines. Philippines, historical

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Example

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"When I worked for the software firm Radical Entertainment Inc. in posh Yaletown in Vancouver, BC, there was a strange mestizo Macanese coworker there, who brought a bird in a cage to the office."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mestizo, from Late Latin mixtīcius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Doublet of metis, which came from French.

Related phrases

Chinese mestizoMestizo de EspañolMestizo de SangleySpanish mestizomestizo wool

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