Definitions for mestizo

mestizo mes·ti·zo

Spelling: [me-stee-zoh, mi-]
IPA: /mɛˈsti zoʊ, mɪ-/

Mestizo is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in mestizo (eimostz).

Definitions for mestizo

noun

  1. a person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry, especially, in Latin America, of mixed American Indian and European descent or, in the Philippines, of mixed native and foreign descent.

Origin of mestizo

1580-90; Spanish, noun use of adj. mestizo Vulgar Latin *mixtīcius mixed

Examples for mestizo

In South America a half-caste, a mestizo, is always counted as a white.

The child, which was evidently dying of anæmia, was a mestizo.

The man himself is either of Spanish blood or a “mestizo” (half-breed).

“Unless you give us what we ask,” replied a mestizo insolently.

He stopped not far from the boat of the mestizo, and listened.

She was a mestizo—not pure Indian, you know, but part Spanish.

The mestizo had been to the fiesta as well as his master, and his keen eyes had been busy on that day.

This, the rude skin sheiling which shelters the mestizo and mulatto.

Same when a mestizo buzzes close; you can have his topknot as much as you like.

He is a mestizo; so the Indians would not mind such a marriage.

Word Value for mestizo
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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