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ABQ

ABQ is the abbreviation of Albuquerque.

Meaning of Albuquerque

Proper noun

Albuquerque (countable and uncountable, plural Albuquerques)

  1. A surname from Spanish.
  2. The largest city in New Mexico, United States; the county seat of Bernalillo County.
    • The Trump administration is developing Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, into a “deportation hub” and considering Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque as a possible military detention site for undocumented immigrants, the New York Times reported on Feb. 21.2025 March 17, Austin Fisher, “ICE ‘disappeared’ 48 New Mexico residents, attorneys say”, in Source New Mexico, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2025
    Synonyms:
    ABQ, Abq., Alb., Alb, Burque, Duke City

Proper noun capitalized: Abq

Abq

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Albuquerque.

Questions about ABQ

What is ABQ the abbreviation of?
ABQ is the abbreviation of Albuquerque.
What part of speech is ABQ?
ABQ is a proper noun.

Words near ABQ in the dictionary

  1. Abplanalps
  2. ABPM
  3. ABPN
  4. abporal
  5. abps.
  6. ABQ
  7. Abq.
  8. Abqaiq
  9. ABQB
  10. abr
  11. abr.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ABQ (page history and authors); Abq (page history and authors); Albuquerque (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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