Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of west-central California south of San Francisco on the southern end of Monterey Bay, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. Founded as a Spanish mission in 1770, it grew as a colonial capital and fishing port and is now the center of a resort area on the Monterey Peninsula.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun The place name of various cities and counties.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a town in western California to the south of San Francisco on a peninsula at the southern end of Monterey Bay
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Monterey.
Examples
-
For instance, you could leave Dallas at 7 p.m. on a Turimex bus and arrive in Monterey 7 am, no change of buses or hassles at the border.
-
For instance, you could leave Dallas at 7 p.m. on a Turimex bus and arrive in Monterey 7 am, no change of buses or hassles at the border.
-
For instance, you could leave Dallas at 7 p.m. on a Turimex bus and arrive in Monterey 7 am, no change of buses or hassles at the border.
-
For instance, you could leave Dallas at 7 p.m. on a Turimex bus and arrive in Monterey 7 am, no change of buses or hassles at the border.
-
For instance, you could leave Dallas at 7 p.m. on a Turimex bus and arrive in Monterey 7 am, no change of buses or hassles at the border.
-
For instance, you could leave Dallas at 7 p.m. on a Turimex bus and arrive in Monterey 7 am, no change of buses or hassles at the border.
-
His characters are predecessors of the Chinese he knew well from his California childhood in Monterey, people who impressed him with their sense of history and duty to their ancestors.
'Shadow of the Cypress': History, mystery and Steinbeck 2010
-
For instance, you could leave Dallas at 7 p.m. on a Turimex bus and arrive in Monterey 7 am, no change of buses or hassles at the border.
-
For instance, you could leave Dallas at 7 p.m. on a Turimex bus and arrive in Monterey 7 am, no change of buses or hassles at the border.
-
For instance, you could leave Dallas at 7 p.m. on a Turimex bus and arrive in Monterey 7 am, no change of buses or hassles at the border.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.