adobe

CEFRC2

/əˈdəʊ.bi/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A brick or building made from dried earth and straw.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A house made of adobe brick.

Examples

  • Adobe and Apple both have top-notch video editing programs.

  • At last! Adobe dumps this shitty Flash for mobiles.

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /əˈdoʊ.bi/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The earth from which such bricks are made.

  2. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.

More examples

In context

  • Some Southwestern Native Americans lived in adobe houses called pueblos.

  • Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.

  • 26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker, The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso po...

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Origin

noun

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”).