rez
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9.9
- noun
- /rɛz/
- Informal
:
reserva indígena
- So, I gotta go to the rez tomorrow.
- walk the rez
- road on the rez
Y'all the Wild West, we're living that rez life.
- Y'all the Wild West, we're living that rez life.
- And you know, the rez I grew up on was tar paper shacks, dirt floors.
Examples
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And you know, the rez I grew up on was tar paper shacks, dirt floors.
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You live here on the rez; everybody is family. It's earsplitting pandemonium.
Blog text (11) -
The rez is on both sides of the river.
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At the bus stop on the rez.
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It's pretty slow after Christmas, unless you want to go off the rez.
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His living off the rez did not sit well with his friends and relatives.
Blog text (11) -
There they were, living on the Rez, keeping themselves apart from a world they could not and would not adapt to.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Want someone to show you around the Rez?" Jay brightened.
Fiction book (2001) -
We're on the rez.
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Tomorrow, I will visit my family on the rez for the weekend.
Synonyms
166
5.0
An area of land set aside by a government for native people or to protect wildlife
49
4.4
A protected area of land for wildlife or local people
12
5.0
Land set aside for a Native American tribe to live on and use
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word rez is a slang short form of reservation, used in the US for land set aside for a Native American tribe. So rez means the place where a community lives and keeps its traditions.