Navajo Definition

navəhō, nävəhō
navaho, navahos, navajoes, navajos
noun
A member of a North American Indian people living in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.
Webster's New World
The Apachean language of the Navajo.
American Heritage
The Athabaskan language of this people, a member of the Apache grouping.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • navaho
pronoun

An Apachean (Southern Athabaskan) language of the Athabascan language family belonging to the Na-Dené phylum. It is spoken by 149,000 people in the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado).

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Other Word Forms of Navajo

Noun

Singular:
Navajo
Plural:
navajoes, navajos

Origin of Navajo

  • American Spanish Navajó originally a place name from Tewa navahū large arroyo with cultivated fields

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Spanish, from Tewa navahu (“field adjoining an arroyo").

    From Wiktionary

Navajo Sentence Examples

  • The tribes represented by these talented craftspeople include Hopi, Navajo, Santo Domingo, and Zuni.

  • You'll find documents, films and photographs pertaining to the Navajo code talkers of World War II.

  • A partly subterranean dome about 10 meters in diameter, similar to the hogan of the Navajo, was the uniform shelter.

  • The Navajo nation is the largest Indian reservation in the U.S., covering over 24,000 square miles in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.

  • Styles of beading can vary from bracelet to bracelet and genuine Native American beading styles differ from tribe to tribe, with Navajo beading showing different patterns from Comanche, for example.

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Words Starting With

NNANAV

Words Ending With

OJO

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Words Starting With N and Ending With O

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With N6 Letter Words Ending With O