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oaxaca

/wəˈhæ.kə/

oaxaca is the alternative form of Oaxaca.

Proper noun capitalized: Oaxaca

Oaxaca

  1. A city in Mexico.
  2. A municipality whose municipal seat is the city of the same name.
  3. A state of Mexico.
    • The hurricane’s heavy rain created rushing rivers in Oaxaca and neighboring Guerrero Thursday, killing at least one person in San Marcos.2025 June 19, Mary Gilbert, “Erick, the strongest hurricane to hit Mexico so early in the year, triggers deadly flooding”, in CNN, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2025
  4. A habitational surname from Spanish.

Noun capitalized: Oaxaca

Oaxaca (countable and uncountable, plural Oaxacas)

  1. A semihard white cheese from the Oaxaca region of Mexico.

Synonyms of oaxaca

Forms of oaxaca

pluralOaxacas

Origin of oaxaca

Borrowed from Spanish Oaxaca, from Classical Nahuatl Huāxyacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (huaje) (Leucaena leucocephala) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).

Words formed from oaxaca

Phrases with oaxaca

Questions about oaxaca

What does oaxaca mean?
Oaxaca means a city in Mexico.
What is oaxaca the alternative form of?
Oaxaca is the alternative form of Oaxaca.
What part of speech is oaxaca?
Oaxaca can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce oaxaca?
Oaxaca is pronounced /wəˈhæ.kə/ (US).

Words near oaxaca in the dictionary

  1. OAU
  2. OAV
  3. oaves
  4. OAVs
  5. OAX
  6. oaxaca
  7. Oaxaca City
  8. Oaxaca mud turtle
  9. Oaxacalifornia
  10. Oaxacan
  11. Oaxacans

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