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adobe

UK/əˈdəʊ.bi//əˈdoʊ.bi/

adobe noun: an unburnt brick dried in the sun.

Noun (1)

adobe (usually uncountable, plural adobes)

  1. (usually) An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
    • 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.”1903, O’Henry, Roads of Destiny
    Synonyms:
    dobe, mudbrick
  2. (usually) The earth from which such bricks are made.
  3. (usually) A house made of adobe brick.
    • The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever[…].2007 March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, “Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order”, in New York Times

Noun (2) capitalized: Adobe

Adobe (plural Adobes)

  1. (informal) Any file, document or program that is associated with Adobe Inc.

adobe meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

adobe in Hindi

adobe, sun-dried brick
ख़िश्त xiśt

adobe in Tamil

சுடப்படாத செங்கல், அடைபடுவு, காற்றடு வண்டல், உணக்கிய செங்கல், வெயிலில் காய்வுற்ற பச்சைச்செங்கல், உணக்கிய செங்கல் கட்டிடம்

adobe in Urdu

adobe, sun-dried brick
خشت xiśt

adobe in Bengali

তৎসংশ্লিষ্ট নির্দিষ্ট ধারণা, বিষয়, বস্তু, প্রকাশ
More languagesFewer languages
adobe in Kannada
ಮರಳು, ಜೇಡಿಮಣ್ಣು ಮತ್ತು ನೀರು ಸೇರಿಸಿ
adobe in Arabic
لَبِنَة labina, لَبِن labin, طُوب ṭūb
adobe in Persian
خشت xešt
adobe in Vietnamese
gạch sống

Examples of adobe in a sentence

  • Sun-dried adobe bricks were used as the primary building material by the Gallinazo.
  • Glass windows replaced the old tiny windows of selenite (crystallized gypsum), and stovepipe replaced adobe chimneys.
  • In the whole city there were only one-story adobe or brick houses.

All 14 example sentences with adobe

Synonyms of adobe

Forms of adobe

pluraladobes
pluralAdobes

Plural of adobe: adobes

Origin of adobe

From Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic Egyptian ⁠⁠ (tb, “brick”), from Egyptian Db-b-t:O39 (ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).

Words formed from adobe

Phrases with adobe

Words that rhyme with adobe

Questions about adobe

What does adobe mean?
Adobe means an unburnt brick dried in the sun.
What is adobe in Hindi?
Adobe in Hindi is ख़िश्त (xiśt). See Adobe meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is adobe?
Adobe is a noun.
How do you pronounce adobe?
Adobe is pronounced /əˈdəʊ.bi/ (UK).
What is the plural of adobe?
The plural of adobe is adobes.

Words near adobe in the dictionary

  1. adnoun
  2. adnouns
  3. Adnyamathanha
  4. ado
  5. Ado Ekiti
  6. adobe
  7. adobe bread
  8. adobe breads
  9. adobe lilies
  10. adobe lily
  11. adobelike

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: adobe (page history and authors); Adobe (page history and authors); ख़िश्त (Hindi) (page history and authors); adobe (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); خشت (Urdu) (page history and authors); adobe (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adobe (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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