Definitions for pueblos

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pueblos pueb·lo

Spelling: [pweb-loh; for 4, 5 also Spanish pwe-blaw]

IPA: /ˈpwɛb loʊ; for 4, 5 also Spanish ˈpwɛ blɔ/

Pueblos is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in pueblos (belopsu).

Definitions for pueblos

noun

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.
6. a city in central Colorado.

Origin of pueblos

1800-10, Americanism; American Spanish; Spanish: town, people Latin populus people

Examples for pueblos

The result for the pueblos of the great revolt in New Mexico was a gradual diminution in the numbers of their inhabitants.

There are, however, ruins of pueblos of some size on the edge of the well.

The supposed traces of it among the pueblos are by no means clear.

The Indians of the pueblos,—in the middle status of barbarism.

I have very good friends in New Mexico, and I was just out at one of the pueblos there, like an hour from Albuquerque.

The tribes of the interior, the pueblos, the Zunis, differed from all other tribes.

The low roofs of the houses and pueblos swarmed with warriors.

They have been reported from both Nagaba and Nueva Valencia, pueblos of that island.

He paid the workmen eight cuartos a day, and got them from other pueblos, too.

pueblos occasionally may be seen from the car-window in New Mexico.