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Cuban

nounadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom/[ˈkjuː.bən]/
  • United States/[ˈkju.bən]/
  • Australia/[ˈkjʉː.bən]/
  • //ˈkjuːbən//

A person from Cuba or of Cuban descent.

noun

  1. 1

    A person from Cuba or of Cuban descent.

    His mother was a Cuban, and his father was a Spaniard; they came to the United States in 1918.

    Eleven Cubans in a vintage Buick — three of them the original “truckonauts” who tried a similar intrepid journey last year aboard a battered Chevy pickup — were intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard early Wednesday and now face a return trip to the communist island.

  2. 2

    A cigar made in Cuba.

    What a hypocrite! He talks big about law and order but then he'll also wave an embargoed Cuban in your face!

  3. 3

    Variant of Cuban sandwichEllipsis of Cuban sandwich.

    Can I please get a Cuban and a beer? Thank you!

Etymology

Etymology tree Taíno cubaobor.? Taíno coabanabor.? Spanish Cubabor. English Cuba Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Cuban From Cuba + -an.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, from, or pertaining to Cuba, the Cuban people or the Cuban dialect.

    Conservative Republicans who had demanded an investigation and hearings when Elian, the 6-year-old Cuban boy, was forceably taken from the house of his great-uncle on April 22 quickly retreated when it was clear the public supported the government action.

Forms

plural
Cubans
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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