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Chileanisms

Chileanisms is the plural of Chileanism.

Meaning of Chileanism

Noun

Chileanism (countable and uncountable, plural Chileanisms)

  1. A term or linguistic feature originating from or specific to the Chilean variety of the Spanish language.
    • Chinanga is, according to Román's Diccionario de chilenismos, not so much a Chileanism as an Americanism, since he credits it to Chile, Perú and Ecuador: it is equivalent to the Spanish taberna, but enlivened with song and dance.1918 May, Julio Noé, “Sarmiento the Traveler”, in Revista de Filosofia, Buenos Aires, Argentina; republished as Inter-América, volume 4, number 3, Doubleday, Page & Company, February 1921, page 141
  2. Chilean nationalism

Questions about Chileanisms

What is Chileanisms the plural of?
Chileanisms is the plural of Chileanism.

Words near Chileanisms in the dictionary

  1. Chilean swallow
  2. Chilean swallows
  3. Chilean tinamou
  4. Chilean tinamous
  5. Chileanism
  6. Chileanisms
  7. Chileanization
  8. Chileanize
  9. Chileanized
  10. Chileanizes
  11. Chileanizing

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