Definition of Laredo

1. Noun. A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.

Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center, Point Of Entry, Port Of Entry
Group relationships: Lone-star State, Texas, Tx

Definition of Laredo

1. Proper noun. A city in south Texas, United States. ¹

2. Proper noun. A city in north Tamaulipas, Mexico. ¹

3. Proper noun. A town in Cantabria, Spain. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laredo

Lapponian
Lapponic
Lapps
Lappula
Lapsang Souchong
Laptev Sea
Laputa
Laputan
Laquer's stain
Lara
Laramie
Lardil
Lardizabala
Lardizabalaceae
Lardner
Laredo (current term)
Laren
Large Magellanic Cloud
Large Münsterländer
Large Münsterländers
Lari
Laricariidae
Laridae
Larisa
Larissa
Larium
Larix
Larix decidua
Larix laricina
Larix lyallii

Literary usage of Laredo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Eugene Campbell Barker, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Texas State Historical Association, University of Texas at Austin Center for Studies in Texas History (1903)
"Of this place, Laredo, founded ten leagues farther up the river ... Dolores was subsequently abandoned, and Laredo remained the only permanent Spanish ..."

2. Appletons' Guide to Mexico: Including a Chapter on Guatemala : and an by Alfred Ronald Conkling (1884)
"This town was a part of old Laredo, on the opposite side of the river, ... New Laredo will become an important city when the two American trunk- lines are ..."

3. Terry's Mexico: Handbook for Travellers by Thomas Philip Terry (1909)
"From Laredo (Texas) via Monterey and Saltillo to San Luis Potosí (Querétaro and Mexico City) . . Laredo, 2. The Rio Grande del Norte, 2. 2. ..."

4. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1912)
"In 1903 it became evident that yellow fever was epidemic in the town of Laredo, Texas, and in the city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, immediately across the Rio ..."

5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1894)
"at Laredo, Texas. A Species New to the United States.—Mr. George B. Benner» of Philadelphia recently brought to me for identification a Kingfisher which he ..."

6. From Flag to Flag: A Woman's Adventures and Experiences in the South During by Eliza Ripley (1889)
"An hour afterward we drove into the scattering town of Laredo, ... I often think of the days we spent in quaint Laredo—of the old priest who three times a ..."

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