Definitions for jornada

jornada jor·na·da

Spelling: [hawr-nah-duh; Spanish hawr-
IPA: /hɔrˈnɑ də; Spanish hɔrˈnɑ ðɑ/

Jornada is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in jornada (aadjnor).

Definitions for jornada

noun

  1. a full day's travel across a desert without a stop for taking on water.

Origin of jornada

1650-60; Spanish Old Provençal Vulgar Latin *diurnāta; see journey

Examples for jornada

They are the panoramic views that present themselves during a single “jornada.”

The people dreaded an attack, and thought me mad, when I made known my intention of crossing the jornada.

I have noted the only two patches of grass found during the 'jornada.'

To avoid this obstacle, the wagons took the dubious detour north across the jornada del Muerto.

Theoretically, the jornada was fifty miles wide here; in reality it was much wider; in seeming it was twice as wide.

It is to be hoped that the fear of meeting with us will prevent them from coming into the jornada north of the town.

No guide could be hired on any terms, so great was their dread of the jornada and its occasional denizens, the Apaches.

Hence the name jornada del Muerto, which is often translated as the journey of death or as the route of the dead man.

At one place they made a “jornada” of seventy miles without water.

Its fourth jornada (day's journey) brought it to the pretty valley where later was established the mission of San Luis Rey.

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