| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | a·do·be |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -d  b |
| NOUN: | 1a. A sun-dried, unburned brick of clay and straw. b. The clay or soil from which this brick is made. 2. A structure built with this type of brick. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Spanish, from Arabic a - ba, the brick : al-, the + ba, a brick, singulative of b, bricks (from Coptic tbe, tbe, from Egyptian  bt, brick).
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