Alamo
pronunciation
How to pronounce Alamo in British English:
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How to pronounce Alamo in American English:
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- Noun:
- the mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico
Word Origin
- Alamo
- nickname of Franciscan Mission San Antonio de Valeroin (begun 1718, dissolved 1793) in San Antonio, Texas; American Spanish, literally "poplar" (in New Spain, also "cottonwood"), from alno "the black poplar," from Latin alnus "alder" (see alder). Perhaps so called in reference to trees growing nearby (compare Alamogordo, New Mexico, literally "big poplar," and Spanish alameda "a public walk with a row of trees on each side"); but the popular name seems to date from the period 1803-13, when the old mission was the base for a Spanish cavalry company from the Mexican town of Alamo de Parras in Nueva Vizcaya.
Example
- 1. I 'll be there defending the alamo .
- 2. In the alamo battle , less than two hundred defender .
- 3. The same night those men died at the alamo .
- 4. They 're all dead at the alamo !
- 5. We will relieve the alamo .