Yuma

[ yoo-muh ]

noun

, plural Yu·mas (especially collectively) Yu·ma

1. a member of an American Indian people of Arizona.
2. the Yuman dialect of the Yuma Indians, mutually intelligible with the dialect of the Mohave Indians.
3. a city in SW Arizona, on the Colorado River.

Example Sentences

The first movie—3:10 to Yuma—starred Glenn Ford and came from a 1953 story that had appeared in Dime Western.

From The Daily Beast

He pointed to Yuma, Ariz., as a prime example of where that partnership works.

From The Daily Beast

“They told me I was going to get deported,” Chang said of the border-patrol officers she encountered on the outskirts of Yuma.

From The Daily Beast

Of the twenty trappers who had accompanied them across the plains from Fort Yuma, only seven remained.

From Project Gutenberg

Their food is amole, bellota and pinole and their chiefs are called Mule and Yuma.

From Project Gutenberg

Your Yuma, who ran away, showed too much skill to be a servant.

From Project Gutenberg

The Yuma proper are large physically, and finely proportioned.

From Project Gutenberg

From these Yuma Indians I take the name for the group now under notice.

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