pueblo

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Primarily a pueblo is an enemy of every other pueblo, but it is customary for pueblos to make terms of peace.

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  1. In Spanish America, a municipality; a town or village; any inhabited place. In the parts of the United States acquired from Mexico it is used in the sense of the English word town. It has the indefiniteness of that term, and, like it, it sometimes applies to a mere collection of individuals residing at a particular place, a settlement or village, as well as to a regularly organized municipality. In its special significance, a pueblo means a corporate town, with certain rights of jurisdiction and administration. In Spain the term lugar was usually applied to towns of this nature, but the Spanish Americans have preferred and persistently used the term pueblo. Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies, 8th ser., IV. 48.
  2. [capitalized] A Pueblo Indian.
  3. pueblo Indians a body of Indians in New Mexico and Arizona, who dwell in communal villages (pueblos). They are partly civilized and self-governing. Among the best-known of them are the Zuñis.

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  1. Spanish, a town, village, people, from Latin populus, people: see people.
 

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