alamo

¹ American  

[al-uh-moh, ah-luh-] / ˈæl əˌmoʊ, ˈɑ lə- /

noun

Southwestern U.S.

plural

alamos

1. a poplar.

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Alamo ² American  

[al-uh-moh] / ˈæl əˌmoʊ /

noun

1. a Franciscan mission in San Antonio, Texas, besieged by Mexicans on February 23, 1836, during the Texan war for independence and taken on March 6, 1836, with its entire garrison killed.

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Alamo British  

/ ˈæləˌməʊ /

noun

1. a mission in San Antonio, Texas, the site of a siege and massacre in 1836 by Mexican forces under Santa Anna of a handful of American rebels fighting for Texan independence from Mexico

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Alamo Cultural  

1. A fort, once a chapel, in San Antonio, Texas, where a group of Americans made a heroic stand against a much larger Mexican force in 1836, during the war for Texan independence from Mexico. The Mexicans, under General Santa Anna, besieged the Alamo and eventually killed all of the defenders, including Davy Crockett.

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Rallying under the cry “Remember the Alamo!”, Texans later forced the Mexicans to recognize the independent republic of Texas.

Etymology

Origin of alamo

First recorded in 1830–40, alamo is from the Spanish word álamo poplar, ultimately < a pre-Roman language of Iberia

Example Sentences

Ahead loomed the dark ridge of the river thickets, a dense rampart of mesquite, ebony, and coma, with here and there a taller alamo or hackberry thrusting itself skyward.

From Heart of the Sunset by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

In the foreground where he had swung the hammock under the alamo it checked and was held, absorbed.

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

Here the river's banks are smothered in thickets of huisache, ebony, mesquite, oak, and alamo.

From Heart of the Sunset by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

We came into the alamo, or shaded ride, through the plaza.

From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames

The tree is called the alamo, or elm, the leaves of which, with those of the ramon, form in that country the principal fodder for horses.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by Stephens, John L.