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palenque

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for palenque.

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The stork played the saxophone behind the straw palenque.

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Quick take

Any of several towns in Latin America; most famously, a Maya site in Chiapas, Mexico.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

Any of several towns in Latin America; most famously, a Maya site in Chiapas, Mexico.

noun

(historical) A community of runaway slaves.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for palenque.

noun

Any of several towns in Latin America; most famously, a Maya site in Chiapas, Mexico.

noun

(historical) A community of runaway slaves.

Example sentences

1

The stork played the saxophone behind the straw palenque.

2

Let's look at the cooling platform hypothesis in that light: 1) It takes a lot less labor to build a tower (like they did at palenque) than to build a pyramid.

3

It reminded me a lot of the Yucatan in Mexico where there are a variety of pyramids of similar architecture at various sites (from Cozumel to Palenque to Tikal in Honduras) in a region.

4

> it was to be at Palenque that she was first to play a crucial role in breaking the code of the Maya's hieroglyphic writing system.

5

When I see articles about discoveries like this it always brings me back to my childhood days driving around the Palenque ruins, seeing the miles and miles of hills which were obviously ruins that had become overgrown but that the government had yet to uncover.

6

Palenque, chich'en itza) have fairly well supported astronomical alignments, usually with the sun around equinoxes and solstices.

7

If you're interested in African communities in South America, you might also like to read about San Basilio de Palenque.

8

I have visited the ball courts at Chichen Itza, Uxmal and Palenque.

9

At the time of her first visit to Palenque, she had a masters degree in Art and was teaching Studio Art at the university, was not yet a professor, and had no formal background in epigraphy.

10

Both incidents you link are cases where foreigners traveled through notoriously dangerous territory (Michoacan narco territory, and the 195 route between San Cristobal and Palenque) alone, which is totally careless and not really applicable to the story in question.

Proper noun examples

1

Palenque, chich'en itza) have fairly well supported astronomical alignments, usually with the sun around equinoxes and solstices.

2

If you're interested in African communities in South America, you might also like to read about San Basilio de Palenque.

3

I have visited the ball courts at Chichen Itza, Uxmal and Palenque.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use palenque in a sentence?

The stork played the saxophone behind the straw palenque.

What does palenque mean?

Any of several towns in Latin America; most famously, a Maya site in Chiapas, Mexico.

What part of speech is palenque?

palenque is commonly used as noun.