Al·bu·quer·que

(ăl′bə-kûr′kē)

The largest city of New Mexico, in the central part of the state on the upper Rio Grande. Founded by Spanish settlers in 1706, it grew as a health resort and the seat of the University of New Mexico (established 1889).

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Albuquerque

(ˈælbəˌkɜːkɪ)

(Placename) a city in central New Mexico, on the Rio Grande. Pop: 471 856 (2003 est)

Albuquerque

(ˈælbəˌkɜːkɪ; Portuguese ɑlbuˈkɛrkə)

(Biography) Afonso de (əˈfõsu dəː). 1453–1515, Portuguese navigator who established Portuguese colonies in the East by conquering Goa, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Malacca, and Ormuz

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Al•bu•quer•que

(ˌɑl buˈkɛr kə for 1; ˈæl bəˌkɜr ki for 2 )

n.

1. Affonso de, 1453–1515, founder of the Portuguese empire in the East.

2. a city in central New Mexico. 419,681.

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Albuquerque - the largest city in New Mexico; located in central New Mexico on the Rio Grande river

Land of Enchantment, New Mexico, NM - a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border

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Los Angeles called to San Diego and Barstow that the Southern California engineers might know and be ready in their lonely round-houses; Barstow passed the word to the Atlantic and Pacific; the Albuquerque flung it the whole length of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe management, even into Chicago.

Three bold and experienced men - cool, confident, and dry when they began; white, quivering, and wet when they finished their trick at those terrible wheels - swung her over the great lift from Albuquerque to Glorietta and beyond Springer, up and up to the Raton Tunnel on the State line, whence they dropped rocking into La Junta, had sight of the Arkansaw, and tore down the long slope to Dodge City, where Cheyne took comfort once again from setting his watch an hour ahead.

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