Mexico City

English

Etymology

Calque of Mexican Spanish Ciudad de México.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɛk.sɪ.kəʊ sɪti/
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  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɛk.sɪ.koʊ sɪɾi/

Proper noun

Mexico City

  1. The capital city of Mexico.
    Synonym: (rare) Mexico
    • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The New Age of Regionalism”, in The Vantage Point[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 348:
      I went to Mexico City on April 15, 1966, to unveil a statue of Abraham Lincoln, who had been a contemporary of Mexican leader Benito Juarez and was revered in Mexico, as in so many other nations.
    • 2023 November 17, Michael Snyder, “A Guide to Guadalajara, Mexico’s City of Makers”, in The New York Times Style Magazine[2], archived from the original on 17 November 2023:
      The writer Juan Rulfo, whose 1955 novel, “Pedro Páramo,” still stands as the central monument of modern Mexican literature, grew up in Jalisco and vividly depicted its arid, sun-blasted landscapes in his writing, while the architect Luis Barragán, who moved from Guadalajara to Mexico City in the 1930s, carried with him an appreciation for his home state’s cloisters, haciendas and humble country buildings, which he translated in his own work as austere, inscrutable volumes of stucco.

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See also

Divisions of the United Mexican States in English (layout · text)
States: Aguascalientes · Baja California · Baja California Sur · Campeche · Chiapas · Chihuahua · Coahuila · Colima · Durango · Guanajuato · Guerrero · Hidalgo · Jalisco · Mexico · Michoacán · Morelos · Nayarit · Nuevo León · Oaxaca · Puebla · Querétaro · Quintana Roo · San Luis Potosí · Sinaloa · Sonora · Tabasco · Tamaulipas · Tlaxcala · Veracruz · Yucatán · Zacatecas
Autonomous city: Mexico City

Danish

Proper noun

Mexico City

  1. Mexico City (the capital city of Mexico)

Swedish

Proper noun

Mexico City n (genitive Mexico Citys)

  1. Mexico City (the capital city of Mexico)