Aztlán

proper noun

The ancestral home of the Aztec peoples.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. anthropologyThe ancestral home of the Aztec peoples.

Origin

Uncertain. One suggested meaning is "place of Herons" or "place of egrets", but this is not possible under Nahuatl morphology: "place of egrets" is Aztatlan. Other proposed derivations include "place of whiteness" and "at the place in the vicinity of tools", sharing the āz- element of words such as teponāztli, "drum" (from tepontli, "log")

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APA

Aztlán. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Aztl%C3%A1n

MLA

“Aztlán.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Aztl%C3%A1n. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Aztlán,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Aztl%C3%A1n.

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