Yuma

[yoo-muh]

noun

plural

Yumas ,

plural

Yuma .

1. a member of an American Indian people of Arizona.

2. the Yuman dialect of the Yuma Indians, mutually intelligible with the dialect of the Mohave Indians.

3. a city in SW Arizona, on the Colorado River.

Example Sentences

Japanese figure skater Yuma Kagiyama took the lead after the NHK Trophy short programme on Friday as he gears up for the Winter Olympics with his first Grand Prix appearance this season.

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Such areas include BLM-managed lands in the vicinity of the White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico, as well as the Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona, she said.

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The Fort Yuma boarding school opened in 1884 at the old military fort on the Colorado River in Imperial County.

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The desert landscape comprising the envisioned Chuckwalla and Kw’tsán monuments connected tribes in the region, according to Lena Ortega of the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe.

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It even carried Arizona’s two majority-Latino counties, Santa Cruz and Yuma.

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