pueblo

5 ENTRIES FOUND:

pueb·lo

noun \ˈpwe-(ˌ)blō; pü-ˈe-, pyü-\
plural pueb·los

Definition of PUEBLO

1
a : the communal dwelling of an American Indian village of Arizona, New Mexico, and adjacent areas consisting of contiguous flat-roofed stone or adobe houses in groups sometimes several stories high b : an American Indian village of the southwestern United States
2
capitalized : a member of a group of American Indian peoples of the southwestern United States

Origin of PUEBLO

Spanish, village, literally, people, from Latin populus
First Known Use: 1808

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