laguna
1 Americannoun
noun
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a Pueblo Indian people of west-central New Mexico.
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the Keresan dialect spoken by the Laguna.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of laguna
< Spanish or Italian; see lagoon
Example Sentences
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Two young local men pick up a couple of American girls there and — after an accident in the laguna — abandon them on a dock outside the hospital.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2021
Snook can be found on the shallow flats of the lower laguna.
From Washington Times • Oct. 30, 2019
“Técnicamente, él está explotando una laguna jurídica que le permite no divulgarlos”.
From Washington Times • Oct. 18, 2014
In a few days we were brave enough to bump down a long dirt road and boondock at the laguna with the hatch flung open, campfire glowing and whales huffing through the night.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2014
The other laguna, that to the eastward, sends its waters through a succession of small mountain lakes into the Rio de Pachachaca, a small tributary to the mighty Amazon river.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina
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