adobe — English Dictionary

Noun

1. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Synonyms

   dobemudbrick

   Examples

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

   “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”

   More examples (3)

   Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.

   The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.

   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 pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.

2. The earth from which such bricks are made.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

3. A house made of adobe brick.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

   The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever[…].

Noun

1. the clay from which adobe bricks are made

   Broader terms

   clay

2. sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates

   Synonyms

   adobe brick

   Broader terms

   brick