Definition of "adobe" in İngilizce

noun

1. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.

   • Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
   • The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.
   • 26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker, The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.

2. The earth from which such bricks are made.

3. A house made of adobe brick.