Cuban

From Cuba + -an.

• enPR: kyo͞oʹ-bən, IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːbən/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [ˈkjʉː.bən]
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈkjuː.bən]

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  • (US) IPA^(key): [ˈkju.bən]
• Rhymes: -uːbən
• Hyphenation: Cu‧ban

Cuban (plural Cubans)

2. 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.

   • 2004 February 5, Tere Figueras, Luisa Yanez, “Cubans’ Buick pulled over at sea”, in The Miami Herald:

     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.

4. 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!

6. Ellipsis of Cuban sandwich.

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

Cuban (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Cuba, the Cuban people or the Cuban dialect.
   • 2000 June 2, Adam Clymer, “THE ELIAN GONZALEZ CASE: THE POLITICS; While Conservatives and Liberals React, Gore and Bush Hedge on Ruling”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

• Kuban

Borrowed from Russian Куба́нь (Kubánʹ).

Cuban m

1. Kuban (a river in Russia)