San-diego meaning

săn dē-ā'gō
Seaport in S Calif.
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A city in southwest California.
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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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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.

Sentence Examples

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

  • of the southernmost point of San Diego Bay; this line has a total length of 1810 m., of which the Rio Grande comprises 1136 and the land route 674 m.

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

  • And going south along the coast, we find the mean temperature of San Diego 6° or 7° less than that of Vicksburg, Miss., or Charleston, S.C. The quantity of total annual heat supply at Puget Sound exceeds that at Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Cleveland or Omaha, all more than In December 1904 Salton Sea was dry; in February 1906 it was.

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

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