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

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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Similarly temperatures in Yuma, Arizona broke a 28-year record, reaching 112 degrees Fahrenheit, while more than 50 other heat records were broken throughout the American Southwest on that same Wednesday.

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