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Hispanicisms

Hispanicisms is the plural of Hispanicism.

Meaning of Hispanicism

Noun

Hispanicism (plural Hispanicisms)

  1. A Spanish-language item as it appears in another language.
    • Hispanidad is a Hispanicism for 'hispanism', especially regarding political objectives.
  2. Support for hegemony of Spain.
    • More recently there has burst forth an enthusiastic Hispanicism, no longer the Hispanicism of Columbus Day with its odes to the great navigator, nor the Hispanicism of the bull fighters and the cabaret singers, but a historical Hispanicism […]1959, Lewis Hanke, Modern Latin America: Continent in Ferment, Van Nostrand, page 131

Questions about Hispanicisms

What is Hispanicisms the plural of?
Hispanicisms is the plural of Hispanicism.

Words near Hispanicisms in the dictionary

  1. hispanicise
  2. Hispanicised
  3. Hispanicises
  4. Hispanicising
  5. Hispanicism
  6. Hispanicisms
  7. Hispanicity
  8. Hispanicization
  9. Hispanicizations
  10. hispanicize
  11. Hispanicized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hispanicisms (page history and authors); Hispanicism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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