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    laguna
    noun
    a bay, inlet, or other narrow or shallow body of water (often used in placenames).
  • Laguna
    Laguna
    noun
    a Pueblo Indian people of west-central New Mexico.

laguna

1 American  
[luh-goo-nuh] / ləˈgu nə /

noun

  1. a bay, inlet, or other narrow or shallow body of water (often used in placenames).


Laguna 2 American  
[luh-goo-nuh] / ləˈgu nə /

noun

Lagunas, plural Laguna plural
  1. a Pueblo Indian people of west-central New Mexico.

  2. the Keresan dialect spoken by the Laguna.


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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

How useful would E.M.D.R. be as treatment for them?Ibialik1b, laguna hills, ca Can E.M.D.R. prompt memories of past trauma to emerge?

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2012

Its western exposure is Roman in design to harmonize with the Palace of Fine Arts on the opposite side of the laguna.

From The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Mullgardt, Louis Christian

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