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El Paso

/ɛlˈpæsoʊ/

El Paso proper noun: a city, the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.

Proper noun

El Paso

  1. A city, the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.
    • The next year, another white man, angry over what he called “the Hispanic invasion of Texas,” opened fire on shoppers at an El Paso Walmart, leaving 23 people dead, and later telling the police he had sought to kill Mexicans.2022 May 16, Nicholas Confessore, Karen Yourish, “A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2022
    • Crowds at the bridge were subsiding Sunday evening, El Paso Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino told CNN.2023 March 12, Rosa Flores, Joe Sutton, “Large group in Mexico attempted mass entry into US at El Paso, Texas, border crossing, officials say”, in CNN, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2023

El Paso meaning in Hindi, Arabic and Persian

El Paso in Hindi

a city in the United States
एल पासो el pāso

El Paso in Arabic

a city in the United States
إِلْ بَاسُو ʔil bāsū

El Paso in Persian

a city in the United States
ال پاسو el pâso

Origin of El Paso

Borrowed from Spanish el paso (“the pass”).

Words formed from El Paso

Questions about El Paso

What does El Paso mean?
El Paso means a city, the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.
What is El Paso in Hindi?
El Paso in Hindi is एल पासो (el pāso). See El Paso meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is El Paso?
El Paso is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce El Paso?
El Paso is pronounced /ɛlˈpæsoʊ/.

Words near El Paso in the dictionary

  1. El Niño
  2. El Niños
  3. El Oro
  4. El Paisnal
  5. El Paraíso
  6. El Paso
  7. El Paso County
  8. El Pasoan
  9. El Pasoans
  10. El Portal
  11. El Porvenir

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