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Anáhuac
[ uh-nah-wahk; Spanish ah-nah-wahk ]
noun
- the central plateau of Mexico, between the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental ranges (3,700 to 9,000 feet; 1,128 to 2,743 meters): center of former Aztec civilization.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Anáhuac1
First recorded in 1810–15; from Nahuatl: literally, “close to the water,” equivalent to A(tl) “water” + nahuac, a suffix meaning “close to”
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Example Sentences
The Commandant of Anahuac arrested and put in prison several American colonists, without any plausible grounds.
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In ancient Anahuac the prelacy was as systematic and its rules as well defined, as in the Church of Rome.
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This Empire of Anahuac, as it was sometimes called, had endured for two centuries.
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The Eutaws 'reside on both sides of the Eutaw or Anahuac mountains, they are continually migrating from one side to the other.'
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It is that of the giants, or Quinames, the earliest inhabitants of Anahuac, whose end was destruction by famine.
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