What part of speech is mesa?

Mesa can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. mesa is a noun, singular of mesas.

Inflections

Noun

What does mesa mean?

Definitions

Noun

Mesa - a city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix
mesa - flat tableland with steep edges; "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water"

Examples of mesa

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1. noun The tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water.
2. noun A small, homogeneous population with a precious culture--a Hopi village on a mesa top in America, e.g.--may be unable to tolerate any outsider for long.
Sentence  
noun
The tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water.
A small, homogeneous population with a precious culture--a Hopi village on a mesa top in America, e.g.--may be unable to tolerate any outsider for long.

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