LATIN AMERICAN

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IPA (US):

• LATIN AMERICAN (noun)
  The noun LATIN AMERICAN has 1 sense:

1. a native of Latin America

  Familiarity information: LATIN AMERICAN used as a noun is very rare.

• LATIN AMERICAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native of Latin America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Latin American; Latino

Hypernyms ("Latin American" is a kind of...):

American (a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Latin American"):

spic; spick; spik ((ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent)

transmigrante (a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell)

Holonyms ("Latin American" is a member of...):

Latin America (the parts of North America and South America to the south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken)

 Context examples 

Individuals who rarely burn and tan heavily with moderate sun exposures, especially individuals of Asian, American Indian, Mediterranean and Latin American descent.

(Fitzpatrick Skin Type IV, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The studies aimed to model the areas covered by regrowth forests across the lowlands of the Latin American Tropics in two age classes; to project potential above-ground carbon storage in these young forests over four decades; and to illustrate alternative scenarios for carbon storage where 0-80 percent of these forests are allowed to regenerate.

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)