Hispanic

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or relating to Spain.
• Of or pertaining to the Iberian peninsula, its people, its culture or its languages.
• Of or relating to a Spanish-speaking people or culture, as in Latin America.
• mestizo.

Noun

• A Spanish-speaking person.
• A person residing in the United States, Latin America or worldwide of Spanish ancestry.
• mestizo

Related

Similar words

• Spanish
• Latin, Latino
• Iberian, Hispanian

Origin

• From the root of Latin Hispānia ("Spain") and the suffix -ic; compare hispānicus.