pueblo

1. 1.

   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)

   BroaderAmerindian

   NarrowerHopiTaosZuni
2. 2.

   a city in Colorado to the south of Colorado Springs

   Broadercity

   Part ofColorado
3. 3.

   a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States

   Broadervillage

Other forms of pueblo

plural

puebloes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pueblo

What does pueblo mean?

pueblo means "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)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pueblo?

pueblo has 2 syllables: pueb-lo. The stress falls on "pueb". In IPA it is /ˈpwɛbloʊ/.

Is pueblo a common word?

pueblo 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.