adobe
/əˈdoʊ.bi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.53 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses."
- "“Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”"
- "Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses."
- "The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house."
- "26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker, The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks."
- "The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever[…]."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: adobe, طوب, ⲧⲱⲃⲉ, ḏbt
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈdoʊ.bi/
- British English: /əˈdəʊ.bi/