Definitions for mestizos

mestizos mes·ti·zo

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

Mestizos is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in mestizos (eimosstz).

Definitions for mestizos

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 mestizos

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

Examples for mestizos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for mestizos
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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