CENTRAL AMERICAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Central American mean? 

• CENTRAL AMERICAN (noun)
  The noun CENTRAL AMERICAN has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Central America

  Familiarity information: CENTRAL AMERICAN used as a noun is very rare.

• CENTRAL AMERICAN (adjective)
  The adjective CENTRAL AMERICAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Central America or its people or languages

  Familiarity information: CENTRAL AMERICAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTRAL AMERICAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Central America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Central American" is a kind of...):

North American (a native or inhabitant of North America)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Central American"):

Costa Rican (a native or inhabitant of Costa Rica)

Guatemalan (a native or inhabitant of Guatemala)

Honduran (a native or inhabitant of Honduras)

Mexican (a native or inhabitant of Mexico)

Nicaraguan (a native or inhabitant of Nicaragua)

Panamanian (a native or inhabitant of Panama)

Holonyms ("Central American" is a member of...):

Central America (the isthmus joining North America and South America; extends from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia)

Derivation:

Central American (of or relating to or characteristic of Central America or its people or languages)

• CENTRAL AMERICAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Central America or its people or languages

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Central America (the isthmus joining North America and South America; extends from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia)

Derivation:

Central American (a native or inhabitant of Central America)

 Context examples 

A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.

(Hispanic or Latino, NCI Thesaurus)

A person of Spanish culture or origin, but not Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, regardless of race.

(Other Hispanic or Latino(a), NCI Thesaurus)

AIDS related research with a minimum of 20% (or $100,000) relevance to individuals of Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Central American, or South American descent.

(AIDS, Hispanic, NCI Thesaurus)

A person not of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.

(Not Hispanic or Latino, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa whose family settled in a South or Central American country such as Argentina, Brazil, or Mexico.

(Black South or Central American, NCI Thesaurus)

Stephen Houston, professor of archaeology and anthropology at Brown University, told the BBC that the revelation of the sprawling Central American civilization was "breathtaking."

(Hidden Mayan Civilization Revealed in Guatemala Jungle, VOA)