ejido

[ Spanish e-hee-thaw ]

noun

, plural e·ji·dos [e-, hee, -, th, aws].

1. a Mexican farm communally owned and operated by the inhabitants of a village on an individual or cooperative basis.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ejido¹

1885–90; < Mexican Spanish; Spanish: common fields (immediately outside a village) < Latin exitus exit ¹

Example Sentences

But on one trip to Ejido Eréndira, an area about 35 miles south of where the surfers were recently killed, Albert and his group of about 10 or 12 people had their belongings stolen overnight while camping.

From Seattle Times

“Back in 1998, the inhabitants of Crescencio Morales decided to set fire to the monarch butterfly colonies, in order to log the land,” recalls Erasmo Álvarez Castillo, the leader of the communal, or ejido, farmers in the village.

From Seattle Times

An anonymous tipster reported a sighting of armed men and people blindfolds at a shabby, orange shack with blue trim and a corrugated metal roof in a tiny rural community known as Ejido Tecolote, on the outskirts of Matamoros.

From Seattle Times

They were found Tuesday in a wooden shack, guarded by a man who was arrested, in the rural Ejido Tecolote area east of Matamoros on the way to part of the Gulf called “Bagdad Beach,” according to the state’s chief prosecutor, Irving Barrios.

From Seattle Times

They were found Tuesday in a wooden shack, guarded by a man who was arrested, in a rural area east of Matamoros called Ejido Tecolote on the way to the Gulf called “Bagdad Beach,” according to the state’s chief prosecutor, Irving Barrios.

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