Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Spanish America, a municipality; a town or village; any inhabited place.
- noun [capitalized] A Pueblo Indian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun (Ethnol.) any tribe or community of Indians living in pueblos. The principal Pueblo tribes are the Moqui, the Zuñi, the Keran, and the Tewan.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called `Pueblos' by the Spanish because they live in pueblos (villages built of adobe and rock)
- noun a city in Colorado to the south of Colorado Springs
- noun a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States
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Examples
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PUEBLO - A flock of tropical birds rescued from a condemned Pueblo home this week are being treated for an infectious virus.
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PUEBLO - Three more people have been arrested in the December killing of a Pueblo man found burned in his home.
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Taos Pueblo, an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos speaking Native American tribe of Pueblo people.
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PUEBLO - A flock of tropical birds rescued from a condemned Pueblo home this week are being treated for an infectious virus.
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PUEBLO, Colorado - A new wind turbine plant coming to Pueblo has drawn overwhelming interest among jobseekers, a surge attributed to the poor economy and layoffs in Colorado's gas and oil industry.
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PUEBLO - School officials in Pueblo are talking about four-day school weeks next year to save money.
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PUEBLO, Colorado - A new wind turbine plant coming to Pueblo has drawn overwhelming interest among jobseekers, a surge attributed to the poor economy and layoffs in Colorado's gas and oil industry.
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PUEBLO - A Colorado Department of Transportation employee was backed over and killed by a fellow employee working in the cone-zone in the 200 block of South I-25 in Pueblo.
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PUEBLO - A new wind turbine plant coming to Pueblo has drawn overwhelming interest among jobseekers, a surge attributed to the poor economy and layoffs in Colorado's gas and oil industry.
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PUEBLO - Southbound traffic on I-25 is beginning to improve through Pueblo as all lanes are now back open.
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