San-diego definition

săn dē-āgō
A city of southern California on San Diego Bay, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean near the Mexican border. Founded as a Spanish mission in 1769, the city grew as a port after the coming of the railroad in the 1880s.
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(place) Seaport in S Calif.
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A city in southwest California.
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Places named after Saint Diego.
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Origin of san-diego

  • From Spanish, from Santiago, a combination of "Sant' Iago", and "Saint James". Sant is from Latin Sanctus, "holy" or "saint". Iago is a northwestern Spanish form from Latin Jacobus, "James". The name Diego is sometimes confused with the Latin name Didacus.

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San-diego Sentence Examples

  • The Buick with its stolen plates turned up in the San Diego Airport parking lot wiped clean.

  • The coast is bold and rugged and with very few good harbours; San Diego and San Francisco bays being exceptions.

  • Below San Francisco the precipitation decreases along the coast, until at San Diego it is only about io in.

  • Raisins do well as far north as Yolo county, but do best in Madera, Jesus, King, Tulare and San Diego counties.

  • The lower Colorado river was discovered in 1540, but the explorers did not penetrate California; in 1542-1543 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo explored at least the southern coast; in 1579 Sir Francis Drake repaired his ships in some Californian port (almost certainly not San Francisco Bay), and named the land New Albion; two Philippine ships visited the coast in 1584 and 1595, and in 1602 and 1603 Sebastian Vizcaino discovered the sites of San Diego and Monterey.

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