alameda

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a public promenade or broad avenue bordered with trees, especially in Spain or Spanish-speaking America

   Families gathered in the shaded alameda at the center of town.

Borrowed from Spanish alameda, 'poplar grove or tree-lined avenue,' from alamo, 'poplar.' English adopted the word in the eighteenth century for shaded public walks in Spain and the Americas.

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