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Puebloan

Puebloan

1 8.0
A person from the Pueblo communities in the southwestern United States
  • noun
  • /ˈpwɛbloʊən/
translation icon : pueblo
  • Many modern Puebloans continue to celebrate their rich cultural traditions through dance and festivals.
  • ancestral Puebloan

Examples

  • In their adobe homes, Puebloans have adapted to the harsh climate of the southwestern deserts.

  • The pottery made by Puebloans is renowned for its intricate designs and craftsmanship.

  • The Puebloans drafted a protest against the order.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Yet, during the first twenty years that Pena painted, 16 Puebloans' cultural traditions were under siege.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Thus, unlike other Puebloans, members of a nuclear family at Jemez take the surname of the male head of the household.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Pueblo traditions had never been static, and contact and trade with other American Indians had long fertilized Puebloans' ideas and their material products.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Steadman Upham analyzed Tuzigoot as a Western Puebloan site whose inhabitants were integrated into an extensive commodity exchange network beginning in the fourteenth century.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Ironically, through the proliferation of paintings using a non-traditional medium, Puebloans would gain their most influential and politically active Santa Fe supporters.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Understanding the early history of chocolate has led archaeologists to speculate that cacao played a critical role in the economic, religious, and political development of people such as the Olmec, Maya, and ultimately even the Anasazi, or Ancestral Puebloan peoples of the American Southwest.

    Academic text (2010)

Synonyms

Pueblo
vsPuebloan
22 6.5

A Native American people of the southwestern United States who live in villages made of adobe and stone

has identical meaning but is an alternative word form

Surface Forms

Puebloan singular
Puebloans plural

Morphology

Puebloan = Pueblo (transparent) = Pueblo + an

A straightforward demonym/agentive formation: 'Pueblo' + '-an' yields 'a member of the Pueblo peoples'; meaning is directly derived for learners who know 'Pueblo'.

Etymology

Puebloan comes from the Spanish pueblo meaning 'village' or 'people', a name given to the Native groups who lived in shared villages in the Southwest. So a Puebloan is a person who belongs to one of those Pueblo peoples.