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paisan

paisan is the alternative form of paisano.

Meaning of paisano

Noun (1)

paisano (plural paisanos)

  1. (US) An Italian(-American), particularly as a term of address between Italian-American men.

Noun (2)

paisano (plural paisanos)

  1. A native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry.
  2. (Southwestern, US) A roadrunner.
    • Within a very few minutes the cattleman was mounted and away. Paisano, well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni.1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 178, column 2

Forms of paisan

pluralpaisans

Questions about paisan

What is paisan the alternative form of?
Paisan is the alternative form of paisano.

Words near paisan in the dictionary

  1. pairwork
  2. pais
  3. Pais effect
  4. paisa
  5. paisa vasool
  6. paisan
  7. paisana
  8. paisanas
  9. paisano
  10. paisanos
  11. paisans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paisan (page history and authors); paisano (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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