New Mexico

American  

noun

1. a state in the southwestern United States. 121,666 sq. mi. (315,115 sq. km). Santa Fe. NM (for use with zip code), N. Mex., N.M.

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New Mexico British  

noun

1. Abbreviation: N. Mex..   NM.  a state of the southwestern US: high semiarid plateaus and mountains, crossed by the Rio Grande and the Pecos River; large Spanish-American and Indian populations; contains over two-thirds of US uranium reserves. Capital: Santa Fé. Pop: 1 874 614 (2003 est). Area: 314 451 sq km (121 412 sq miles)

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New Mexico Cultural  

1. State in the southwestern United States bordered by Colorado to the north, Oklahoma and Texas to the east, Texas and Mexico to the south, and Arizona to the west. Its capital is Santa Fe, and its largest city is Albuquerque.

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An important center of Native American culture and home to Navajo reservations.

Center of the Los Alamos Research Center, where the atomic bomb (see also atomic bomb) was developed.

Other Word Forms

• New Mexican adjective

Example Sentences

Meteorologists say the cold front will stretch from eastern New Mexico across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, and likely into Washington, D.C.,

From MarketWatch

In 1848 President James Polk forced Mexico to sell the U.S. a massive swath of territory including California, Arizona and New Mexico for $15 million after the U.S. won the Mexican-American War.

From The Wall Street Journal

She grew up in New Mexico and started her journalism career in West Texas before moving to San Francisco and New York.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the negotiations, the three downstream or lower basin states — California, Arizona and Nevada — are at odds with the four states in the river’s upper basin — Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times

That year, Cabot Oil & Gas, a natural-gas producer in the Northeast, and Cimarex Energy, an operator in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico primarily focused on oil, combined in a $14 billion deal.

From The Wall Street Journal