PAISANO meaning: Fellow countryman, often used affectionately

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General (17 matching dictionaries)

paisano: Merriam-Webster
paisano: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
paisano: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
paisano: Collins English Dictionary
Paisano, paisano: Wordnik
paisano: Wiktionary
paisano: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
paisano: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
paisano: Infoplease Dictionary
Paisano, paisano: Dictionary.com
paisano: Online Etymology Dictionary
Paisano, The Paisano: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Paisano: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
paisano: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Paisano: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
paisano: FreeDictionary.org
paisano: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See paisanos as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (paisano)

▸ noun:  Among Italian Americans and Americans of Italian descent: a fellow Italian or Italian-American; a fellow ethnic Italian.
▸ noun:  A native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry.
▸ noun:  (US, Southwestern US) A roadrunner.

Opposite:

outsider, foreigner, stranger, non-native

Adjectives:

old, poor, civil, little, true, average, unambitious

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