Oaxacann.adj.
/wɑːˈhɑːkən/, U.S. /wɑˈhɑk(ə)n/ A. n.
A native or inhabitant of the state or city of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of Central America > [noun] > Mexico > specific
Oaxacan1897
Yucatec1912
1897 Harper's Mag. Apr. 756/1 He offered Diaz high positions, but the Oaxacan went back to his sugar-making.
1970 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 50 373 Part One..studies four local ‘revolutionary intellectuals’.., [and] a Coahuilan (Francisco I. Madero), and an Oaxacan.
1996 Hist. Jrnl. 39 1130 The illustrious Oaxacan..was under no illusions about the nature of his times.
B. adj.
Of, belonging to, or characteristic of Oaxaca or its people.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > Central and South America > [adjective] > Central America > specific countries > Mexico > part of
Pueblan1856
Oaxacan1897
1897 W. H. Holmes Archaeol. Stud. among Anc. Cities of Mexico 211 The principal occupants of the Oaxacan region in ancient times were known as Zapotecs and Mixtecs.
1909 Bot. Gaz. 48 428 The great thickness of these Oaxacan plant beds has been noted.
1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 263 Our Oaxacan friend, Don Manuel, invited us one evening to join this endless procession.
1977 Dædalus Summer 88 This early Oaxacan elite was distinctly less sophisticated than the Olmec aristocracy of the neighboring Mexican Gulf Coast country.
1992 Chile Pepper Sept. 37/1 The canario chile is used to produce the hottest of all the Oaxacan moles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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