Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The largest city of California, in the southern part of the state on the Pacific Ocean. Founded by the Spanish in 1781, it grew in the late 1800s after the coming of the railroad and the discovery of oil, and became the center of the US film industry in the 1920s. Today it is the hub of an extensive metropolitan area.
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- proper noun A port of the
United States that is the largest city inCalifornia and second-largest in the United States. Known for being an urban area that covers a large area.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city in southern California; motion picture capital of the world; most populous city of California and second largest in the United States
Etymologies
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Examples
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We have no reports yet of serious injuries or damages out there, but I can tell you, this one was felt all over what they call the Los Angeles basin -- up north, almost to Santa Barbara, down south, almost to San Diego, you could feel this.
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My nocturnal adventure illustrates that there is always something new and wonderful to find and explore in this amazing city-by-the-sea we call Los Angeles.
Jay Weston: Santa Monica Place: A Worthy L.A. Shopping and Dining Destination Jay Weston 2011
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The book starts out with Andy Lipkis, the founder of TreePeople in Los Angeles, whose activism started at age 6, when he called the Los Angeles Times to report a year-round blossoming apple tree in his yard.
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One of them calls a Los Angeles emergency dispatcher and from there, the frustration and the desperation only grow.
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Tiesto, for one, owns his own jet, and houses in Sweden and Ibiza, although at the moment he calls Los Angeles' Chateau Marmont home.
News - latimes.com 2011
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Abrams' Los Angeles office, a code word the filmmakers used to keep the project under wraps - but it stuck, adding even more mystery.
SFGate: Top News Stories By CHRISTY LEMIRE 2010
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Abrams' Los Angeles office, a code word the filmmakers used to keep the project under wraps - but it stuck, adding even more mystery.
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She called the Los Angeles market unique, with four overlapping public stations vying for viewers.
NYT > Home Page By ELIZABETH JENSEN 2010
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Many believe that drive times from ONT to much of Los Angeles is shorter than from LAX.
IAGblog 2009
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She called Los Angeles radio station KOST 103.5 to clear things up:
Queerty 2009
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