Definition of Mexican War

1. Noun. After disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000.

Generic synonyms: War, Warfare
Terms within: Buena Vista, Chapultepec

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mexican War

Meuse
Meuse-Argonne
Meuse-Argonne operation
Meuse River
Mev
Mevacor
Mewuk
Mexase
Mexica
Mexicali
Mexican
Mexican-American
Mexican Revolution
Mexican Sign Language
Mexican Spanish
Mexican War (current term)
Mexican beaded lizard
Mexican bean beetle
Mexican black cherry
Mexican breakfast
Mexican breakfasts
Mexican capital
Mexican cypress
Mexican duck
Mexican ducks
Mexican fire plant
Mexican flameleaf
Mexican freetail bat
Mexican green
Mexican hairless

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