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Puerto Ricans

Puerto Ricans is the plural of Puerto Rican.

Meaning of Puerto Rican

Noun

Puerto Rican (plural Puerto Ricans)

  1. A person from Puerto Rico.
    • Today many of our newcomers are from Mexico and Puerto Rico. We sometimes forget that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by birth and therefore cannot be considered immigrants. Nonetheless, they often receive the same discriminatory treatment and opprobrium that were faced by other waves of newcomers....1964, John F. Kennedy, “Waves of Immigration-the Post-Revolutionary Forces”, in A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63
    Synonyms:
    Boricua

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Questions about Puerto Ricans

What is Puerto Ricans the plural of?
Puerto Ricans is the plural of Puerto Rican.

Words near Puerto Ricans in the dictionary

  1. Puerto Rican tanager
  2. Puerto Rican tanagers
  3. Puerto Rican time
  4. Puerto Rican Virgin Islands
  5. Puerto Ricanness
  6. Puerto Ricans
  7. Puerto Rico
  8. Puerto Rico Trench
  9. Puerto Suárez
  10. Puerto Vallarta
  11. Puerto Varas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Puerto Ricans (page history and authors); Puerto Rican (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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