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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
  1. a Pueblo Indian people of west-central New Mexico.

  2. the Keresan dialect spoken by the Laguna.


Etymology

Origin of laguna

< Spanish or Italian; see lagoon

Example Sentences

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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

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

The geographer Hondius has filled up this void; and has even added to his map a table of longitudes and latitudes, among which figure the laguna del Dorado, and the Ville Imperiale de Manoas.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Humboldt, Alexander von

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