Adobe
//əˈdəʊ.bi// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An unburnt brick dried in the sun. uncountable, usually
"Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses."
- 2 sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates wordnet
- 3 The earth from which such bricks are made. uncountable, usually
- 4 the clay from which adobe bricks are made wordnet
- 5 A house made of adobe brick. uncountable, usually
"The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever[…]."
Example
More examples"Adobe and Apple both have top-notch video editing programs."
Etymology
From Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic Egyptian (tb, “brick”), from Egyptian Db-b-t:O39 (ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).
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