Pueblo Definition

pwĕblō
pueblos
noun
Any of some 25 Native American peoples, including the Hopi, Zuni, and Taos, living in established villages in northern and western New Mexico and northeast Arizona. The Pueblo are considered to be descendants of the cliff dwellers and are noted for their skilled craft in pottery, basketry, weaving, and metalworking.
American Heritage
A member of any of the peoples inhabiting pueblos, as a Zuni or Hopi.
Webster's New World
A type of communal village built by certain Amerindian peoples of the SW U.S. and parts of Latin America, consisting of one or more flat-roofed structures of stone or adobe, arranged in terraces and housing a number of families.
Webster's New World
Any Indian village in the SW U.S.
Webster's New World
In Spanish America, a village or town.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Pueblo

Noun

Singular:
Pueblo
Plural:
pueblos

Origin of Pueblo

  • American Spanish from Spanish people, pueblo from Latin populus people public

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

  • From Spanish pueblo, from Latin populus.

    From Wiktionary

Pueblo Sentence Examples

  • The original settlement, now called Pueblo Viejo, 4 m.

  • The Pueblo Indians live in adobe houses, are quiet and usually self-sustaining, and have been converted to the forms of Christianity.

  • It was an ancient pueblo, of considerable size and importance as early as the end of the 18th century.

  • And a Spanish adventurer destroyed the picture records which were found in the pueblo of Montezuma.

  • Ponce's hospitable reception by the native chief, Aquebana or Guaybana, and his fairly profitable search for the precious metal led King Ferdinand in 1509 to give him an appointment as temporary governor of the island, where his companions had already established the settlement of Caparra (Pueblo Viejo, near the present San Juan).

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Words Starting With

PPUPUE

Words Ending With

OLOBLO

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Pueblo

Words Starting With P and Ending With O

Starts With P & Ends With OStarts With PU & Ends With OStarts With P & Ends With LO

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With O