camino

American  

[ka-mee-noh] / kæˈmi noʊ /

noun

• caminos
  plural

1. a pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

2. any pilgrimage route through Spain.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• caminos
  plural

Example Sentences

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camino caminos

It was called “El Camino” because, with some liberties, the path supposedly followed the camino, the route, of the mission-building Franciscan priest Junipero Serra.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2023

But when he was in his prime Taxco was an important trading town on the transcontinental camino real, along which the trade of Spain and the Orient was transshipped.

From Time Magazine Archive

One day a four-year-old boy, seeing the fireplace in the room, wrote "camino."

From Time Magazine Archive

But in the account-book of Bolton Abbey, under the year 1311, there is a charge pro faciendo camino in the rectory-house of Gargrave.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

"I assure you I have not given that little scene on the camino a second thought."

From The Fifth Ace by George W. Gage

Government undertakes the cost and the super-intendence of the caminos reales, and does it well.

From Spanish Life in Town and Country by William Harbutt Dawson

The reader has some idea of the caminos reales of this country, and they were all like English turnpikes compared with that upon which we entered on leaving this rancho.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by John L. Stephens

In contrast to Portugal, the caminos reales, or high-roads, of Spain have long been very good.

From Spanish Life in Town and Country by William Harbutt Dawson

And had not her deceased husband been comisionado de caminos y puentes for the district?

From Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry

It is he who speaks of the "doce caminos por el mar."

From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Daniel Garrison Brinton