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
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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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