mestizo
IPA: mɛstˈizoʊ
noun
- A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
- (Philippines, historical) a person of mixed ancestry, especially one of native Filipino and Spanish or Chinese ancestry, such as that of the Spanish mestizos and Chinese mestizos from the Spanish Colonial Era of the Philippines.
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Examples of "mestizo" in Sentences
- Both of the latter are not Mestizo.
- I'm bothered with the mestizo term.
- In the article is says she's mestizo.
- An estimated 7% of the population are mestizo.
- However, the majority of Colombians are a mestizo.
- Having one mestizo forefather does not make you mestizo.
- In other words, the mestizo is the lineage that most permeates the society.
- Now mestizos are mentioned in the first paragraph of the Ethnography section.
- Mestizos inherited the privilege of helping the Spanish administer the country.
- Binondo is the historic birthplace of the mestizo de sangley or Chinese mestizo.
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