Yuma

[ yoo-muh ]

noun

, plural Yu·mas (especially collectively) Yu·ma

1. a member of an American Indian people of Arizona.
2. the Yuman dialect of the Yuma Indians, mutually intelligible with the dialect of the Mohave Indians.
3. a city in SW Arizona, on the Colorado River.

Example Sentences

The desert landscape comprising the envisioned Chuckwalla and Kw’tsán monuments connected tribes in the region, according to Lena Ortega of the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe.

From Los Angeles Times

It even carried Arizona’s two majority-Latino counties, Santa Cruz and Yuma.

From Los Angeles Times

Similarly temperatures in Yuma, Arizona broke a 28-year record, reaching 112 degrees Fahrenheit, while more than 50 other heat records were broken throughout the American Southwest on that same Wednesday.

From Salon

“Whatever she was doing diplomatically in other countries, I wouldn’t call it very effective based on what we saw here at the actual border,” says Douglas Nicholls, the Republican Mayor of Yuma, Arizona.

From BBC

A few communities in nearby Yuma and La Paz counties in Arizona also hit that many days in a row at or over 90 degrees.

From Los Angeles Times