Puerto Rican
See also: puertorican
English
Etymology
Puerto Rico + -an
Pronunciation
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Noun
Puerto Rican (plural Puerto Ricans)
- A person from Puerto Rico.
- Synonym: Boricua
- 1964, John F. Kennedy, “Waves of Immigration-the Post-Revolutionary Forces”, in A Nation of Immigrants[1], Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63:
- Today many of our newcomers are from Mexico and Puerto Rico. We sometimes forget that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by birth and therefore cannot be considered immigrants. Nonetheless, they often receive the same discriminatory treatment and opprobrium that were faced by other waves of newcomers. The same things are said today of Puerto Ricans and Mexicans that were once said of Irish, Italians, Germans and Jews: “They’ll never adjust; they can’t learn the language; they won’t be absorbed.”
Hypernyms
Translations
person from Puerto Rico
Adjective
Puerto Rican (comparative more Puerto Rican, superlative most Puerto Rican)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Puerto Rico, or the Puerto Rican people.
- Synonym: (US, colloquial) boricua
Derived terms
- Puerto Rican spindalis (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
Translations
pertaining to Puerto Rico
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