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Nogales

Nogales

10 5.1
A town in southern Arizona on the border with Mexico
  • proper noun
  • /nəˈɡɑːlɛs/
: Nogales
  • I'm going south to Nogales, you're going west to tombstone, and we're both on the same train.
  • Nogales, Arizona

Examples

  • From there you'll cross the border on a bus to Nogales.

    His Kind of Woman (1951)

  • Nogales and Bisbee, they're in Arizona.

    Appaloosa (2008)

  • We just went to Nogales for the afternoon with the family.

    Salvador (1986)

  • This here is my friend, Jim, from Nogales.

    Pocket Money (1972)

  • Really, Tucson and Nogales seem just like American cities to me, just with a Mexican flavor.

    Blog text (17)

  • More revealing than the statistics was Helene Cooper's account of Nogales, Arizona.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Another local environmental project supported by the Sonoran Joint Venture is in the Santa Cruz River valley southeast of Nogales, Arizona.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Joe Wilder, the architects, and I drove from Nogales to Magdalena de Kino for lunch.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Hermosillo, the state capital of Sonora, is a four-hour drive from the Arizona-Sonora border town of Nogales.

    Academic text (1997)

  • We just went to Nogales for the afternoon with the family.

Surface Forms

Nogales main

Etymology

Nogales comes from the Spanish word nogal, which means 'walnut tree', and nogales means 'walnut trees'. The Arizona town was named for the walnut trees that grew there, so Nogales is a name that says 'place of walnut trees'.