Adobe

Definitions

1. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
   uncountable, usually
2. The earth from which such bricks are made.
   uncountable, usually
3. A house made of adobe brick.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

26 more languages

العربيةاللّبنةطوبلبنلبنة+ 1 more

Българскикирпич

Bosanskitova

Catalàtova

Češtinavepřovice

Ελληνικάπλιθίπλίνθος

فارسیخشت

Suomisavitiili

Gaeilgeadóib

Galegoadobe

Hrvatskitova

Magyarvályogvályogtégla

Bahasa Indonesiatanah liat

日本語アドベ

한국어어도비

Kurdîkerpîç

Latviešuķieģelis

Македонскиплитарќерпич

Nederlandsadobesteenklei

Polskiglinobitka

Portuguêsadobe

Românăchirpicivăiugă

Русскийсаман

Српскиtova

Türkçekerpiç

Українськалимпачмазанка

Examples

“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[…].”

CEFR level