Albuquerque
pronunciation
How to pronounce Albuquerque in British English:
UK ['ælbəkɜ:kɪ]
How to pronounce Albuquerque in American English:
US ['ælbəkɜrkɪ]
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- Noun:
- the largest city in New Mexico; located in central New Mexico on the Rio Grande river
Word Origin
- Albuquerque
- city in New Mexico, U.S., founded 1706 and named for Spanish administrator and viceroy of Mexico Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, Duque de Alburquerque (1617-1676); name altered by association with Portuguese soldier Alfonso de Albuquerque (1453-1515), both named from Alburquerque, a town in Spain close to the Portuguese border, meaning "white oak;" ultimately from Latin albus "white" and quercus "oak."
Example
- 1. In fact , the albuquerque policy has met some resistance from the rank and file .
- 2. I expanded my research to other dealerships in albuquerque .
- 3. The conference was watched closely in new mexico 's 2nd congressional district , which stretches from the suburbs of albuquerque to the mexican border .
- 4. Such are the extremes within the z machine at sandia national laboratories in albuquerque , new mexico .
- 5. Geochemist and lead author zachary sharp of the university of new mexico , albuquerque , explains that the chlorine isotope ratio is a highly reliable indicator of the amount of hydrogen a planetary body contains .