ADOBE
What does "ADOBE" mean?
A sun-dried brick of clay and straw, or the building material made from it.
Meanings
- A brick of clay mixed with straw and dried in the sun, used for building. The walls were thick adobe, cool even at noon.
- A house or structure built from such bricks. They restored an old adobe on the edge of the desert.
- Made of or resembling sun-dried clay brick. The town's adobe church has stood for three centuries.
Did you know?
- 'Adobe' carries an ancient passport: scholars trace it from a hieroglyphic Egyptian word for brick into Coptic, then Arabic 'al-tub' (the brick), then Spanish, before it reached English.
Word origin
From Spanish 'adobe', borrowed from Arabic 'al-tub' (the brick), traced by scholars back through Coptic to an Ancient Egyptian word for brick - one of the oldest building words in any language.
Remember it
ADOBE = A Dwelling Of Baked Earth - a sun-baked mud house spelled out.
A little poem
Mud, straw, and the sun-
a wall remembers the field
it used to lie in.
haiku
What it teaches
The humblest materials, given time and sun, outlast the grandest hurry.
Quick facts
What does ADOBE mean?
A sun-dried brick of clay and straw, or the building material made from it.
Is ADOBE a valid word?
Yes — ADOBE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ADOBE?
ADOBE has 5 letters and 3 syllables.
Where does ADOBE come from?
From Spanish 'adobe', borrowed from Arabic 'al-tub' (the brick), traced by scholars back through Coptic to an Ancient Egyptian word for brick - one of the oldest building words in any language.
What can ADOBE teach us?
The humblest materials, given time and sun, outlast the grandest hurry.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.