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mestization

mestization noun: miscegenation resulting in mestizos.

Noun

mestization (uncountable)

  1. Miscegenation resulting in mestizos.
    • The process of mestization of the races and their culture was widespread throughout all of Latin America and applies especially to colonial Central America and most dramatically to El Salvador.1984, Sidney David Markman, Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico, page 19

Questions about mestization

What does mestization mean?
Mestization means miscegenation resulting in mestizos.
What part of speech is mestization?
Mestization is a noun.

Words near mestization in the dictionary

  1. mestiza de sangley
  2. mestizaje
  3. mestizas
  4. Mestizas de Español
  5. mestizas de sangley
  6. mestization
  7. mestize
  8. mestizes
  9. mestizo
  10. mestizo de espanol
  11. mestizo de español

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