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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   plural of tao form-of, plural
2. 2
   An indigenous, Tiwa-speaking Pueblo people of northern New Mexico. plural, plural-only
3. 3
   a member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico wordnet

Adjective

1. 1
   Of or pertaining to the Taos people or language. not-comparable

Proper Noun

1. 1
   The pueblo which they inhabit, which, being about one thousand years old, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the United States.
2. 2
   The Kiowa-Tanoan lect they speak, which is either closely related to or a dialect of northern Tiwa.
3. 3
   A town, the county seat of Taos County, New Mexico, south of Taos Pueblo.
4. 4
   A city and town in Missouri.

Synonyms

All synonyms

circuitprovincetaoisttaoistwayyami

Example

More examples

"Taos Amrouche, an Algerian tear."

Etymology

From Spanish Taos (“Taos”), from Taos tə̂o (“village”), as in tə̂otho (“in the village”) or tə̂obo (“to the village”).

Related phrases

Taos CountyTaos MountainsTaos Pueblocounty seatnew mexicotaos county

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.