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Tesuque

Syllables: Te·su·que/təˈsuː.ki/

Tesuque adjective: of or pertaining to the Tesuque people.

Adjective

Tesuque (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Tesuque people.

Noun

Tesuque (plural Tesuque or Tesuques)

  1. A federally recognized tribe of Tewa-speaking Pueblo people in Santa Fe County, New Mexico.
  2. A member of this tribe.
    • In 1695, Fray José Díez, on loan to New Mexico from the Franciscan missionary college at Querétaro, superintended construction of Tesuque's first post-Revolt church. It survived the renewed uprising of 1696 because the majority of Tesuques, for their own good reasons, remained loyal to Diego de...1980, John L. Kessell, The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776

Proper noun

Tesuque

  1. The pueblo inhabited by these people, one of the Rio Grande Pueblos.
  2. A census-designated place in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States.

Forms of Tesuque

pluralTesuque
pluralTesuques

Origin of Tesuque

From Spanish Tesuque, from Tewa Teˀtsʼúgéh (“narrow place of the cottonwood trees”).

Words that rhyme with Tesuque

Questions about Tesuque

What does Tesuque mean?
Tesuque means of or pertaining to the Tesuque people.
What part of speech is Tesuque?
Tesuque can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Tesuque?
Tesuque is pronounced /təˈsuː.ki/.

Words near Tesuque in the dictionary

  1. testworthiness
  2. testworthy
  3. testy
  4. testæ
  5. tesuji
  6. Tesuque
  7. Tesuques
  8. tesvino
  9. tet
  10. tet spell
  11. tet spells

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