pueblo

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

Updated on: 18 Apr 2018

Definition of pueblo

plural pueblos

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 U.S.

2 capitalized : a member of a group of American Indian peoples of the southwestern U.S.

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The air of international bohemianism hadn’t yet descended on the pueblo.

— tyrone beason, The Seattle Times, "A reporter feels the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.’s promised land on a Mexican mountaintop," 31 Mar. 2018
The essentials: In this comedy by Native American playwright Dillon Chitto, a senior center’s teenage bingo caller worries about leaving his pueblo for college in the outside world.

— margaret gray, latimes.com, "The 99-Seat Beat: 'Bingo Hall,' 'Proof,' Pat Kinevane and women fighting back," 9 Mar. 2018
At Los Portales, a pueblo-style collection of 20 adobe brick rooms rings around a garden, with Mexican-style equipales for the sitting

— Condé Nast Traveler, "Gage Hotel," 20 Oct. 2017
Both of her parents grew up in the state of Michoacán, in the same 1,000-person pueblo where food could be scarce and shoes a luxury.

— jeff gammage, Philly.com, "From Mexico to Swarthmore, a dream now in danger," 9 Sep. 2017
Martha Stewart Living would send him on these dream assignments, like to a Shaker farm, or a pueblo on top of a mesa, or a hunt for tiled silos.

— peter meehan, GQ, "Illustrator Tamara Shopsin on How to Find the Best Weird Places When You Travel," 29 Aug. 2017
For good reason, as the pueblo, built in the 12th century and the oldest continuously operating community in North America, sits atop a sheer-walled 367-foot sandstone bluff.

— patti nickell, chicagotribune.com, "Albuquerque boasts plenty of sass and style," 26 May 2017
For good reason, as the pueblo, built in the 12th century and the oldest continuously operating community in North America, sits atop a sheer-walled 367-foot sandstone bluff.

— patti nickell, star-telegram, "Albuquerque boasts style and history in equal measure," 22 May 2017
For good reason, as the pueblo, built in the 12th century and the oldest continuously operating community in North America, sits atop a sheer-walled 367-foot sandstone bluff.

— patti nickell, chicagotribune.com, "Albuquerque boasts plenty of sass and style," 26 May 2017

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Origin and Etymology of pueblo

Spanish, village, literally, people, from Latin populus

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: a group of Native American homes that have flat roofs and that were used in the past in the southwestern U.S.
Pueblo : a member of any of several groups of Native Americans from the southwestern U.S.

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noun pueb·lo \ ˈpwe-blō \

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plural pueblos

1 : an American Indian village of Arizona or New Mexico made up of groups of stone or adobe houses with flat roofs

2 capitalized : a member of any of several American Indian peoples of Arizona or New Mexico

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