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adj
Of or pertaining to the Taos people or language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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name
The pueblo which they inhabit, which, being about one thousand years old, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the United States.
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name
The Kiowa-Tanoan lect they speak, which is either closely related to or a dialect of northern Tiwa.
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Broader terms: Tiwa, Tanoan
name
A town, the county seat of Taos County, New Mexico, south of Taos Pueblo.
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name
A city and town in Missouri.
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noun
plural of tao
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Usage: form-of, plural
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noun
An indigenous, Tiwa-speaking Pueblo people of northern New Mexico.
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Usage: plural, plural-only
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noun
an artist colony in northern New Mexico
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: town
noun
a member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico
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Broader terms: Pueblo
History
From Spanish Taos (“Taos”), from Taos tə̂o (“village”), as in tə̂otho (“in the village”) or tə̂obo (“to the village”).
Across languages
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