Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pueblo"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pueblo \Pueb"lo\, n. [Sp., a village, L. populus people. See
{People}.]
A communistic building erected by certain Indian tribes of
Arizona and New Mexico. It is often of large size and several
stories high, and is usually built either of stone or adobe.
The term is also applied to any Indian village in the same
region.
{Pueblo Indians} (Ethnol.), any tribe or community of Indians
living in pueblos. The principal Pueblo tribes are the
Moqui, the Zu[~n]i, the Keran, and the Tewan.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Pueblo
n 1: a member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples
called pueblos by the Spanish because they live in
villages built of adobe and rock [syn: {Pueblo}]
2: a city in Colorado south of Colorado Springs [syn: {Pueblo}]
3: a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern U.S.
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