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San Francisco Definition

San· Fran·cisco (san′ frən sis′kō)

seaport on the coast of central Calif., separated from Oakland by an inlet (San Francisco Bay) of the Pacific: pop. 777,000

Etymology: Sp, name of old mission there, after Saint Francis of Assisi

San Francisco Related Forms
San′· Fran·cis′·can (-kən) adjective, noun
San Francisco Synonyms

San Francisco

n.

City by the Golden Gate, City of St. Francis, Frisco*, Queen City*, Golden City*, the City Cosmopolitan*, Port o' Missing Men*.

San Francisco Quotes

I Left My Heart in San Francisco.

—Cross, Douglas

   This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco. 384

—Hart, Gary originally  Gary Hartpence

New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic. San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one- trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle. St Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley