el paso

1. 1.

   a city in western Texas on the Mexican border; located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande across from the Mexican city of Juarez

   Broadercity

   Part ofTexas

Questions about el paso

What does el paso mean?

el paso means "a city in western Texas on the Mexican border; located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande across from the Mexican city of Juarez".

Is el paso a common word?

el paso is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.