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PRONUNCIATION OF MESO-AMERICAN

Meso-American  [ˌmiːzəʊəˈmɛrɪkən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MESO-AMERICAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Meso-American is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MESO-AMERICAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Meso-American

Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, within which a number of pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries. It is one of six areas in the world where ancient civilization arose independently, and the second in the Americas after Norte Chico in present-day northern coastal Peru. As a cultural area, Mesoamerica is defined by a mosaic of cultural traits developed and shared by its indigenous cultures. Beginning as early as 7000 BC, the domestication of maize, beans, squash and chili, as well as the turkey and dog, caused a transition from paleo-Indian hunter-gatherer tribal grouping to the organization of sedentary agricultural villages. In the subsequent formative period, agriculture and cultural traits such as a complex mythological and religious tradition, a vigesimal numeric system, and a complex calendric system, a tradition of ball playing, and a distinct architectural style, were diffused through the area.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MESO-AMERICAN


African
ˈæfrɪkən
American
əˈmɛrɪkən
Armorican
ɑːˈmɒrɪkən
Asian-American
ˈeɪʒənəˈmerɪkən
awe-stricken
ˈɔːˌstrɪkən
awestricken
ˈɔːˌstrɪkən
bricken
ˈbrɪkən
horror-stricken
ˈhɒrəˌstrɪkən
hurricane
ˈhʌrɪkən
Latino-American
læˈtiːnəʊəˌmerɪkən
love-stricken
ˈlʌvstrɪkən
lovestricken
ˈlʌvstrɪkən
Mesoamerican
ˌmɛsəʊəˈmɛrɪkən
Mexican
ˈmɛksɪkən
moonstricken
ˈmuːnˌstrɪkən
plague-stricken
ˈpleɪɡˌstrɪkən
planet-stricken
ˈplænɪtˌstrɪkən
stricken
ˈstrɪkən
taken
ˈteɪkən
thunderstricken
ˈθʌndəˌstrɪkən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MESO-AMERICAN

Mesoamerica
Mesoamerican

WORDS THAT END LIKE MESO-AMERICAN

African-American
all-American
Anglo-American
anti-American
Central American
Early American
East African
jerrican
Latin American
Native American
North African
North American
Pan-African
Pan-American
pro-American
South African
South American
Spanish-American
un-American
Vatican
West African

Synonyms and antonyms of Meso-American in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Meso-American» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MESO-AMERICAN

Find out the translation of Meso-American to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Meso-American from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Meso-American» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

中美洲
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Mesoamericano
570 millions of speakers

English

Meso-American
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मेसो अमेरिकी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لأمريكا الوسطى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Трансамериканского
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Meso- americana
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মধ্যবর্তী-আমেরিকান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Méso-américain
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meso-Amerika
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Meso-Amerikanischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

メソアメリカ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

메조 - 미국
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Meso-Amerika
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Meso- Mỹ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மெசோ-அமெரிக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मेसो-अमेरिकन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Mezo-Amerikan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Meso - americana
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Meso -American
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Трансамериканського
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Mezo- american
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Μεσο - American
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Meso- Amerikaanse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Meso -American
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Meso -amerikanske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Meso-American

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MESO-AMERICAN»

The term «Meso-American» is normally little used and occupies the 128.020 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MESO-AMERICAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Meso-American

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MESO-AMERICAN»

Discover the use of Meso-American in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Meso-American and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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South and Meso-American Native Spirituality: From the Cult ...
diverse spiritual traditions that have evolved in South and Central America and the Caribbean, since their first violent encounter with Europeans in the 16th century. Illustrations.
Gary H. Gossen, Miguel Leon-Portilla, 1997
2
Mayan Calendar Girls: The Great Meso-American Novel
But they also missed a few bits. So TEAM 2012 fills in the whole picture: a batch of hot, sassy Calendar Girls who are all about getting their hands on the purloined clues to what will really happen on 20/12/2012.
Linton Robinson, Grayson Moran, Team 2012, 2011
3
Native Mesoamerican Spirituality: Ancient Myths, Discourses, ...
This volume presents a carefully edited and translated collection of Pre-Columbian ancient spiritual texts.
Miguel León Portilla, 1980
4
The Meso-American Southwest: Readings in Archaeology, ...
This collection of thirteen highly orig­inal studies demonstrates the deeply penetrating influence on the American Southwest by a Mesoamerican culture.
Basil Calvin Hedrick, J. Charles Kelley, Carroll Laverne Riley, 1974
5
Time and the Calendars
1 1 /MESO AMERICAN CALENDARS I shall conclude my account of specific historical calendar systems with a brief examination of a set of Meso- American calendars, originating it would seem with the Maya perhaps late in the first millennium ...
William Matthew O'Neil, 1976
6
Purgatory And Utopia: A Mazahua Indian Village of Mexico
In spite of this lack of the "consciousness of kind" either in regard to Mexican Indian population in general or in regard to Mazahuas from the region, there exist some genuine similarities among all Meso-American Indians, in regard to both ...
Alicja Iwańska, 2006
7
proceedings of the american philosophical society
Tierra y agua: a study of the ecological factors in the development of Meso- American civilization. Harvard Univ. Ph.D. thesis. . 1956. The central Mexican symbiotic region: a study in prehistoric settlement patterns. Viking Fund Publication No.
8
American Indian Contributions to the World
Although Meso- american written languages were different from one another, they shared common patterns. Many archaeologists believe that the earliest writing in Meso- america was that of the Zapotec, whose culture arose in the area that is ...
Emory Dean Keoke, Kay Marie Porterfield, 2005
9
The Expression of Possession
This collection of nine original articles deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages (including Germanic, Oceanic, Meso ...
William B. McGregor, 2009
10
Essays on Mexican Kinship
Within the traditional context of research on Meso- american life, there is a need for the exhaustive study of a series of conceptual and substantive problems covering a wide range of topics such as residence patterns, the structure of extended ...
Hugo G. Nutini, Pedro Carrasco, James M. Taggart, 1976

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MESO-AMERICAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Meso-American is used in the context of the following news items.
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Weekend Calendar
MUSEUM OF NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY 202 S.W. O St., Bentonville. "The Jim and Nancy Blair Meso-American Art Collection," continuing. «Arkansas Online, Jul 15»
2
'From Dusk Till Dawn' cast tease a Rumspringa and a Greek chorus …
I'm an outsider who, all on my own doing, has been studying this Meso-American history and been infatuated with it my whole life. Season two ... «Examiner.com, Jul 15»
3
“Frida Kahlo: Her Photos” to Present Selections of 241 Images in …
The items include pottery, clothing, jewelry and other Mexican, Meso-American and Latino art. They selected some art works they imagined ... «Copper Basin News, Jul 15»
4
Panama and Nicaragua – Two Canals, One Shared Dream
The anthropologist pointed out that the canal in Nicaragua will run through five protected biodiversity-rich areas in the Meso-American ... «Inter Press Service, Jul 15»
5
South Florida Food and Drink Events This Weekend: Mango Fest …
And Zipitio's — a start-up food truck specializing in a Meso-American take on Mexican fare — will make the tacos. Tacos & Hip Hop will take ... «New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Jun 15»
6
Zipitio's Pop-Up Taco Stand Launching June 26 at Subculture Coffee
And Zipitio's — a start-up food truck specializing in a Meso-American take on Mexican fare — will make the tacos. Zipitio's was founded by an El ... «New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Jun 15»
7
Saving Marine Species Without Apology: Why We Don't Mind Being …
... were not very innocent; the gold they carried in their holds had been stolen from the Meso-American Indians whom they had murdered. «One Green Planet, Jun 15»
8
Hwang Young-Sung: Beyond the Grid at Gallery Shchukin
A Meso-American researcher worked months to decipher a text and was shocked to find that the beginning said: “This text contains everything ... «Arte Fuse, Jun 15»
9
East Haven resident earns fellowship to pursue career as diplomat
Salgado's family ties to Honduras helped spark his interest in Meso-American language and culture, the release said. Salgado also studied ... «New Haven Register, May 15»
10
What Scholars Do
Moreover, literally hundreds of other journals discuss more specialized subfields of (eg) Meso-American history, archaeology, genetics, ... «Patheos, May 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Meso-American [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/meso-american>. May 2024 ».
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