Alamo
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7.1
- proper noun
- /ˈæl.ə.moʊ/
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Álamo
- Says she had a great uncle who was killed at the Alamo.
And so the Alamo becomes important all out of proportion to its scale of the fight itself.
- And so the Alamo becomes important all out of proportion to its scale of the fight itself.
Examples
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I remember the Alamo.
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Remember the Alamo.
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You do realize that all the men of the Alamo die...
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Welcome to the Alamo, boys.
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We met on a bus trip to the Alamo six months ago and have been keeping company ever since.
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Yeah, but they all died at the Alamo.
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Why don't we just let them come and get us, O'Rourke, like we did at the Alamo?
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Well ladies and gentlemen, not since the Alamo have the Texans suffered such a defeat at the hands of the Mexicans.
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They couldn't save the Alamo, either, but everyone who died there's a hero.
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On March 6, Santa Anna's army attacked the Alamo and killed every man behind its walls.
Compounds
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An 1836 fight in Texas when Mexican forces attacked the Alamo and killed the people defending it
Surface Forms
Etymology
Alamo comes from the Spanish word álamo, which means 'poplar' or 'cottonwood'. The mission was named for the poplar trees near it, so the simple word for a tree became the name people remember in Texas history.