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pueb⋅lo
[pweb-loh; for 4, 5, also Sp. pwe-blaw] 
–noun, plural pueb⋅los [pweb-lohz; Sp. pwe-blaws] .
[pweb-lohz; Sp. pwe-blaws] . | 1. | a communal structure for multiple dwelling and defensive purposes of certain agricultural Indians of the southwestern U.S.: built of adobe or stone, typically many-storied and terraced, the structures were often placed against cliff walls, with entry through the roof by ladder. |
| 2. | (initial capital letter ) a member of a group of Indian peoples living in pueblo villages in New Mexico and Arizona since prehistoric times. |
| 3. | an Indian village. |
| 4. | (in Spanish America) a town or village. |
| 5. | (in the Philippines) a town or a township. |
Pueb⋅lo
[pweb-loh] –noun
| a city in central Colorado. 101,106. |
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| Pueb·lo 1 (pwěb'lō) n. pl. Pueblo or Pueb·los
[American Spanish, from Spanish, people, pueblo, from Latin populus, people; see public.] Word History: The identity of the Pueblo peoples is undeniably connected to the stone and adobe dwellings they have occupied for more than 700 years—especially from an etymological point of view. Originally coming from the Latin word populus, "people, nation," the Spanish word pueblo, meaning "town, village," as well as "nation, people," was naturally used by 16th-century Spanish explorers to refer to villages that they discovered or founded in the Southwest. The English word pueblo is first recorded in an American text in this sense in 1808, marking it as an Americanism. The distinctive adobe or stone villages of the Pueblo peoples, with some buildings rising as high as five stories, must have impressed the Spaniards considerably, because pueblo came to be applied to the inhabitants as well as the village, perhaps in honor of their architectural achievements or simply as an obvious way to distinguish the Pueblo from other Native American peoples. The first recorded usage of this sense is found in 1834. |
| Pueblo 2 A city of southeast-central Colorado south-southeast of Colorado Springs. It is a shipping and industrial center for an irrigated agricultural region. Population: 104,000. |
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Pueblo
Pueb"lo\, n. [Sp., a village, L. populus people. See People.] A communistic building erected by certain Indian tribes of Arizona and New Mexico. It is often of large size and several stories high, and is usually built either of stone or adobe. The term is also applied to any Indian village in the same region. Pueblo Indians (Ethnol.), any tribe or community of Indians living in pueblos. The principal Pueblo tribes are the Moqui, the Zu[~n]i, the Keran, and the Tewan.
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Language Translation for : pueblo
Spanish:
pueblo,
German:
das Volk,
Japanese:
国家
pueblo
"Indian village," 1808, from Sp. pueblo "village, small town," from L. populum, acc. of populus "people."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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pueblo
traditional architecture of the Pueblo Indians of the southwestern United States. The multistoried, permanent, attached homes typical of this tradition are modeled after the cliff dwellings built by the Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) culture beginning in approximately AD 1150. This architectural form continued to be used by many Pueblo peoples in the early 21st century.
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