Word.ws English Dictionary

Neorican

UK/ˌniː.əʊˈɹiː.kən/US/ˌni.oʊˈɹi.kən/

Neorican adjective: of or relating to natives or inhabitants of the mainland United States (especially New York) who are of Puerto Rican descent.

Adjective

Neorican (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to natives or inhabitants of the mainland United States (especially New York) who are of Puerto Rican descent.
    • And, while New York's school system struggles with the problem of making the Puerto Rican child truly bilingual, the island's schools have the problem in reverse: 20,000 Neorican youngsters are trying to learn Spanish.1972 May 21, Ruth Gruber, “There Are Few Independentistas In Puerto Rico, But—”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Feb...
    • “The Puerto Rican Papers” has a saving grace. It is the first articulate statement, in book form, of a sector of the Neorican mentality: the proindependence, New York‐born militants.1973 October 7, “The Puerto Ricans”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020

Noun

Neorican (plural Neoricans)

  1. A native or inhabitant of the mainland United States (especially New York) who is of Puerto Rican descent.

Examples of Neorican in a sentence

  • Like other contemporary Neorican authors, they are internationalizing their experiences of oppression and historical invisibility.1993, Frances R[ivera] Aparicio, “From Ethnicity to Multiculturalism: An Historical Overview of Puerto Rican Literature in the United...
  • Examples of hybridization are the poetry of Martin Espada, which combines neosurrealism with political activism, and the Neorican poetry of Miguel Algarin, Pedro Pietri, and Pedro Adorno.2005, José Manuel Rodeiro, “Aesthetics”, in Ilan Stavans, Harold Augenbraum, editors, Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in...

Forms of Neorican

Adjective
alternative formNeo-Rican
alternative formneo-Rican
Noun
pluralNeoricans

Origin of Neorican

From neo- + (Puerto) Rican, modeled after Spanish neorriqueño, itself a blend of neoyorquino (“New Yorker”) + puertorriqueño (“Puerto Rican”).

Words that rhyme with Neorican

Questions about Neorican

What does Neorican mean?
Neorican means of or relating to natives or inhabitants of the mainland United States (especially New York) who are of Puerto Rican descent.
How do you use Neorican in a sentence?
Like other contemporary Neorican authors, they are internationalizing their experiences of oppression and historical invisibility.
What part of speech is Neorican?
Neorican can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce Neorican?
Neorican is pronounced /ˌniː.əʊˈɹiː.kən/ (UK).

Words near Neorican in the dictionary

  1. neorectums
  2. neoregelia
  3. neoregelias
  4. neoretinal
  5. neorhusflavanone
  6. Neorican
  7. Neoricans
  8. neorickettsial
  9. neornithine
  10. neornithines
  11. neornithischian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Neorican (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Neorican.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/neorican. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.