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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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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- proper noun A
city in southwestCalifornia . - proper noun Places named after
Saint Diego .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a picturesque city of southern California on San Diego Bay near the Mexican border; site of an important naval base
Etymologies
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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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