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TAOS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Taos mean?
• TAOS (noun)
The noun TAOS has 2 senses:
1. a member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico
2. an artist colony in northern New Mexico
Familiarity information: TAOS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Taos" is a kind of...):
Pueblo (a member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called 'Pueblos' by the Spanish because they live in pueblos (villages built of adobe and rock))
Sense 2
Meaning:
An artist colony in northern New Mexico
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Taos" is a part of...):
Land of Enchantment; N.M.; New Mexico; NM (a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border)
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