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mexican | guatemalan |

As nouns the difference between mexican and guatemalan

is that mexican is a Mexica; an Aztec while Guatemalan is a person from Guatemala or of Guatemalan descent.

As adjectives the difference between mexican and guatemalan

is that mexican is of or pertaining to the Mexica people while Guatemalan is of, from, or pertaining to Guatemala or the Guatemalan people.

mexican

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A Mexica; an Aztec.
  • * 1660: , The Shaking of the Olive-Tree , p. 260
  • Surely, nature it ?elf calls to us for this re?pect to a deity, even the very ?avage Indians may teach us this point of religion; among?t whom we find the Mexicans , a people that had never had any intercour?e with the other three parts of the World, Eminent in this kinde; what ?umptuous, and ?tately Temples had they erected to their Devils: How did they enrich their mi?-called Gods with Magazins of their trea?ure?
  • * 1677: Richard Gilpin, Daemonologia Sacra, or, a Treatise of Satans Temptations , pp. 255–256
  • Not unlike to this were tho?e mor?els'' of Pa?te, which the ''Mexicans'' u?ed in their Religious Fea?ts, which they laid at their Idols Feet, con?ecrating them by Singing and other Ceremonies, and then they called them ''the Fle?h and Bones'' of their God ''Vitziliputzli
  • * 1782: review of Storia antica del Messico'', in ''The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature , vol. 54, p. 144
  • The Azteche?e, or Mexicans , were the la?t who arrived in Anahuac.
  • (obsolete) The Nahuatl language.
  • * 1856: Arthur Helps, The Spanish Conquest in America , vol. 2, p. 239
  • Painala was in the Mexican province of Coatzacualco: she was accordingly able to speak Mexican .
  • A person from Mexico or of Mexican descent.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.}}
  • (US, slang, offensive) A person from, or of descent from, any Spanish-speaking country.
  • The Mexican dialect of Spanish.
  • * 1970 , Stan Steiner, La raza: the Mexican Americans , page 224
  • "You see, I never learned to speak Spanish, but speak Mexican fluently," he says disarmingly.
  • * 1998 , Richard Montoya, Ricardo Salinas, Herbert Siguenza, Culture Clash: Life, Death, and Revolutionary Comedy , page 23
  • You really scare me when you speak Mexican .
  • * 2000 , Ben K. Green, The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos , page 87
  • I didn't speak much Mexican , but I savvied a lot more than I could speak and picked the word banditos out of their conversation.
  • (Australia, slang, Queensland) A person from either of the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria.
  • Synonyms

    * (Mexica) Mexica, Aztec * (language) Nahuatl, Aztec

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Of or pertaining to the Mexica people.
  • (obsolete) Of or pertaining to the Nahuatl language.
  • * 1795: W. Winterbotham, An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States , vol 4, p. 87
  • The principal grain of Mexico, before the introduction of tho?e from Europe, was maize, in the Mexican language called tluolli, of which there were ?everal kinds, different in ?ize, weight, colour, and ta?te.
  • * 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 .
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Mexico.
  • Synonyms

    * (people) Mexica, Aztec * (language) Nahuatl, Aztec

    Derived terms

    * Mexican breakfast * Mexican jumping bean * Mexican poppy * Mexican stocks * Mexican standoff * Mexican tea * Mexican wave

    guatemalan

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person from Guatemala or of Guatemalan descent.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Guatemala or the Guatemalan people.