CUBAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cuban mean? 

• CUBAN (noun)
  The noun CUBAN has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Cuba

  Familiarity information: CUBAN used as a noun is very rare.

• CUBAN (adjective)
  The adjective CUBAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba

  Familiarity information: CUBAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUBAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Cuba

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Cuban" is a kind of...):

West Indian (a native or inhabitant of the West Indies)

Holonyms ("Cuban" is a member of...):

Cuba; Republic of Cuba (a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba)

Derivation:

Cuban (of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba)

• CUBAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Cuban rum

Pertainym:

Cuba (a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba)

Derivation:

Cuba (the largest island in the West Indies)

Cuba (a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba)

Cuban (a native or inhabitant of Cuba)

 Context examples 

A person living in the United States of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin.

(Multiple Hispanic, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Hispanic or Latino, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A person of Cuban culture or origin, regardless of race.

(Cuban, NCI Thesaurus)

Even the Cuban boa is getting harder to observe, because the snakes have been hunted for food and pets.

(Snakes Hunt in Groups, Study Suggests, VOA)

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 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)

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 from or of Cuba or an American citizen of Cuban decent.

(Cuban or Cuban American, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville say the Cuban boa, the largest native terrestrial predator on the island they are named after, coordinate their hunts in the island’s bat caves.

(Snakes Hunt in Groups, Study Suggests, VOA)