What does Hispanic mean?
Definitions for Hispanic
hɪˈspæn ɪkhis·pan·ic
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Princeton's WordNet
Spanish American, Hispanic American, Hispanicadjective
an American whose first language is Spanish
Hispanic, Latinoadjective
related to a Spanish-speaking people or culture
"the Hispanic population of California is growing rapidly"
Wiktionary
Hispanicnoun
A Spanish-speaking person.
Hispanicnoun
A person residing in the United States, Latin America or worldwide of Spanish ancestry
Hispanicnoun
a mestizo.
Hispanicadjective
Of or relating to Spain
Hispanicadjective
Of or relating to a Spanish-speaking people or culture, as in Latin America.
Houses in New Mexico, California and Florida exhibit a strong Hispanic architectural influence.
Hispanicadjective
Of or pertaining to the Iberian peninsula, its people, its culture or its languages.
Hispanicadjective
mestizo.
Etymology: From Hispania the name for present-day Spain
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hispanic
Hispanic refers to people who are from, or descendants of people from, Spanish-speaking countries. This includes Spain and most countries in Central and South America. Some people may identify as Hispanic based on their cultural or ethnic background, regardless of their language or place of birth. It's important to note that being Hispanic does not denote a specific race, but rather a cultural or linguistic association.
Webster Dictionary
Hispanicadjective
of or pertaining to Spain or its language; as, Hispanic words
Etymology: [L. Hispanicus.]
Wikidata
Hispanic
Hispanic is an ethnonym that denotes a relationship to Spain or, in some definitions, to ancient Hispania, which comprised the Iberian Peninsula including the modern states of Andorra, Portugal, and Spain and the British Crown Dependency of Gibraltar. Today, organizations in the United States use the term as a broad catch all to refer to persons with a historical and cultural relationship either with Spain and Portugal or only with Spain, regardless of race. However, in the eyes of the US Census Bureau, Hispanics or Latinos can be of any race, any ancestry, or any country of origin. The term is more broadly used to refer to the culture, peoples, or nations with a historical link to Spain. The term is commonly applied to those countries which were once colonized by Spain, particularly the countries of Latin America which were colonized by Spain. It could be argued that the term cannot be applied to all Spanish speaking cultures/countries as the historical roots of the word specifically pertain to the Iberian region. It is also difficult to label a culture with one term, such as Hispanic, as the customs, traditions, beliefs and art forms widely vary depending on country and even within the regions of said country. The Spanish and Portuguese cultures are the main cultural element shared by Hispanic peoples.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Hispanic
his-pan′ik, adj. Spanish.—adv. Hispan′ically.—vs.t. Hispan′icise, Hispan′iolise, to render Spanish.—n. Hispan′icism, a Spanish phrase. [L. Hispania, Spain.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Hispanic in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Hispanic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of Hispanic in a Sentence
He went to the large Hispanic counties, the border counties, and he would do these big rallies. And then he'd leave, last year, I think O'Rourke could have done much better with ethnic voters.
Think of all the glass ceilings that Republicans broke in this last election [on Tuesday]. It wasn't just the election of the governor, the first woman minority woman elected to lieutenant governor, [but] you look at the race in Texas. This [seat] is 73 percent Hispanic.
This includes more than 6,000 participants who identify as Hispanic or LatinX, and more than 3,000 participants who identify as Black orAfrican American.
People, Hispanics specifically, have always talked about the great potential the Hispanic vote can have in an election, this should call for an important reflection because we always put a lot of hop in the Latino vote, but if the pattern for the statistics continues, by November 2016, we'll have the same pattern of data.
A Republican can't get elected president without getting roughly 40% of the Hispanic vote. Can't make the math work.
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