machu picchu

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   Inca fortress city in the Andes in Peru discovered in 1911; it may have been built in the 15th century

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Questions about machu picchu

What does machu picchu mean?

machu picchu means "Inca fortress city in the Andes in Peru discovered in 1911; it may have been built in the 15th century".

Is machu picchu a common word?

machu picchu is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.