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Yuma

Yuma

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A city in southwestern Arizona near the California border on the Colorado River
  • proper noun
  • /ˈjuːmə/
translation icon : Yuma
  • Do you think this is widespread in Yuma County or elsewhere?
  • Yuma, Arizona
  • Yuma County
  • Fort Yuma

There was a Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma.

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Examples

  • My mother had married him in Yuma, Arizona, a year ago.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Well, the truth is I ran into a man in Yuma.

  • We're going to set the training wall, and Yuma is there as well.

  • - We just wanna get out of Yuma.

  • I remember one time in Yuma, Arizona...

  • We're an international program, but I have friends who drive from Montana through Yuma, AZ.

  • So this is in Yuma, AZ, which is where one of the places the Blue Angels go and test fly and train.

  • Sergeant Beversdorf was born in Yuma, Arizona, on April 16, 1985.

    Blog text (28)
  • He grew up in the small town of Yuma, Arizona, the real-life equivalent of Night Vale.

  • The first game took place in Yuma, which later became a spring training town.

Compounds

A language spoken by the Yuma people in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico

Surface Forms

Yuma main

Etymology

Yuma comes from the name of the Native American people who lived along the Colorado River, and Spanish settlers used that name for the town on the river. So the city's name reminds us it was the home of the Yuma people.