Mexico

alternative México · alternative humorous pronunciation spelling Mehico

1. A country in North America, located south of the United States, and northwest of Guatemala and Belize from Central America. Official name: United Mexican States.

   The path to approval has been bumpiest in Washington, where Democrats in Congress have raised concerns over Mexico’s enforcement of labor rights and environmental law — and smoothest in Mexico, where the president has described the accord as a guarantee of stability for his country’s economy.

   2019 June 19, Elisabeth Malkin and Ana Swanson, “Mexico Ratifies Trade Deal With the U.S. and Canada”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2025

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   While I've gazed at the sky from my sleeping bag on isolated mountaintops in Montana and southern beaches of Mexico and seen a jazillion stars basking in the peace of the evening, only in Rishikesh do the jazillion merge upon another bajillion jazillion and seem to lay overhead thick as glittering ceiling tiles.

   2016, Claire Krulikowski, Moonlight on the Ganga

   Fafo works with small trading nations such as Colombia because US markets could quickly adapt to the greater expense of its coffee, flowers and other exports. There will be a different order of chaos, though, if Trump follows through on tariffs on the EU (17 per cent of US imports), Mexico (15 per cent), China (14 per cent) or Canada (12 per cent).

   2025 January 27, David Charter, “Fafo diplomacy: How Colombia found out Trump meant business”, in The Times, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2025

2. abbreviationellipsisrareEllipsis of Mexico City: the capital city of Mexico.

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   This extract is taken from a most interesting Relation of the Commodities of Nova Hispania, and the Manners of the Inhabitants, written at the special request of Richard Hakluyt, by Henry Hawks, who had lived five years as a merchant in Mexico. ¶ Mexico is a great city: it hath more than fifty thousand households, whereof there are not past five or six thousand houses of Spaniards; all the others are people of the country, which live under the Spaniards' laws. […] Round about the town there are very many gardens and orchards of the fruits of the country, marvellous fair, where the people have great recreation. ¶ There are near about this city of Mexico many rivers and standing waters, which have in them a monstrous kind of fish, which is marvellous ravening, and a great devourer of men and cattle. He is wont to sleep upon the dry land many times, and if there come in the meantime any man or beast and wake or disquiet him, he speedeth well if he get from him. He is like unto a serpent, saving that he doth not fly, neither hath he wings. ¶ There is west out of Mexico a port town which is on the South Sea, called Puerto de Acapulco, whereat there are ships which they have ordinarily for the navigation of China, which they have newly found. This port is threescore leagues from Mexico.

   1906 [1625], Richard Hakluyt and Samuel Purchas, quoting Henry Hawks, “The City of Mexico in 1570”, in E. E. Speight, editor, The Romance of the Merchant Venturers, Hodder and Stoughton, pages 66-68

3. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of the State of Mexico: a state of Mexico. Capital: Toluca.

   Synonyms: Edomex

4. A municipality of the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines.
5. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A census-designated place in Jefferson Township, Miami County, Indiana.
   2. An unincorporated community in Crittenden County, Kentucky.
   3. A town in Oxford County, Maine.
   4. An unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland.
   5. An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland.
   6. A city, the county seat of Audrain County, Missouri.
   7. A town and village therein, in Oswego County, New York.
   8. An unincorporated community in Tymochtee Township, Wyandot County, Ohio.
   9. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Walker Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania.
   10. An unincorporated community in Montour County, Pennsylvania.
   11. A former unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, now submerged under Lake Tawakoni.