las vegas

1. 1.

   largest city in Nevada; located in southeastern Nevada; originally settled by Mormons but is now famous for entertainment and gambling and general excess

   Broadercity

   Part ofNevada

Questions about las vegas

What does las vegas mean?

las vegas means "largest city in Nevada; located in southeastern Nevada; originally settled by Mormons but is now famous for entertainment and gambling and general excess".

Is las vegas a common word?

las vegas 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.