Navajo
noun
Na·va·jo
ˈna-və-ˌhō 
ˈnä-
ˈnä-
variants
or less commonly
1
plural Navajo or Navajos also Navaho or Navahos
: a member of an Indigenous people of northern New Mexico and Arizona and southern Utah
2
: the language of the Navajo people
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For its new Canyon Road collection, the iconic brand followed that inspiration directly to the source, teaming up with seventh-generation sister-brother Navajo weavers Naiomi and Tyler Glasses to create a range of furnishings that herald indigenous craft.
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Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 17 Sep. 2025
Show Low is a Mogollon Rim city in Navajo County, located close to Pinetop-Lakeside and the White Mountains.
—Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Grey’s son, Loren Grey, restored his father’s original ending in the novel’s 1982 Pocket Books reprint, but the vanishing mythos remains intact, with the last of the tribe wistfully following Curtis’s Navajo into the temporal graveyard of the past.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
In this podcast, Mariah discusses its historic and cultural significance and asks her grandmother, who was born and raised on the Navajo reservation, to cook up some frybread and share her memories.
—Steve Drummond, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
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Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 17 Sep. 2025
Show Low is a Mogollon Rim city in Navajo County, located close to Pinetop-Lakeside and the White Mountains.
—Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Grey’s son, Loren Grey, restored his father’s original ending in the novel’s 1982 Pocket Books reprint, but the vanishing mythos remains intact, with the last of the tribe wistfully following Curtis’s Navajo into the temporal graveyard of the past.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
In this podcast, Mariah discusses its historic and cultural significance and asks her grandmother, who was born and raised on the Navajo reservation, to cook up some frybread and share her memories.
—Steve Drummond, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for Navajo
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Navajo
noun
Na·va·jo
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plural Navajo or Navajos also Navaho or Navahos
: a member of an Indigenous people of northern New Mexico and Arizona
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