jornada

[hawr-nah-duh, hawr-nah-thah]

noun

Southwestern U.S.

plural

jornadas 

1. a full day's travel across a desert without a stop for taking on water.

Word History and Origins

Origin of jornada¹

1650–60; < Spanish < Old Provençal < Vulgar Latin *diurnāta; journey

Example Sentences

In 2009, she wrote a letter to Mexican newspaper La Jornada fiercely condemning Israel’s actions in an earlier war with Gaza, where 13 Israelis and more than 1,000 Palestinian civilians and militants had been killed.

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The strike in the Caribbean shows “the type of attacks that could be directed against Mexican people and vehicles,” wrote columnist Julio Hernández López in Mexico’s La Jornada newspaper.

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She still reads newspapers in English and Spanish — The Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Mexico City’s left-leaning La Jornada — but all online and mostly about regional, national and international developments, because few local news sources remain.

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Pero pasar de la concepción de la idea a la realidad, fue una jornada frustrante y agotadora.

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A migrant from Honduras told Mexican newspaper La Jornada that he decided to join the trek north after having waited in vain for a transit permit to cross Mexico.

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