USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The word pueblo is the Spanish word both for “town” or “village” and for “people". It comes from the Latin root word populus meaning “people". Spanish colonials applied the term to their own civic settlements, but to only those Native American settlements having fixed locations and permanent buildings.

Detailed explanation-2: -pueblo in British English (ˈpwɛbləʊ, Spanish ˈpwelo ) nounWord forms: plural-los (-ləʊz, Spanish-los ) 1. a communal village, built by certain indigenous peoples of the southwestern US and parts of Latin America, consisting of one or more flat-roofed stone or adobe houses.

Detailed explanation-3: -plural pueblos. a group of flat-roofed, connected buildings made of pressed, dried earth or stone, built by American Indians in the southwestern U.S: While in New Mexico we visited the ruins of an ancient pueblo.

Detailed explanation-4: -This noun of Spanish origin refers to a structure and institution of Native American origin: a communal village consisting of contiguous, multistory flat-roofed houses. Spanish explorers of the American Southwest were the first to use the word pueblo.

Detailed explanation-5: -village. / (ˈvɪlɪdʒ) / noun. a small group of houses in a country area, larger than a hamlet. the inhabitants of such a community collectively.