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TAOS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An artist colony in northern New Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Taos" is a part of...):

Land of Enchantment; N.M.; New Mexico; NM (a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Taos" is a kind of...):

Pueblo (a member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called 'Pueblos' by the Spanish because they live in pueblos (villages built of adobe and rock))

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