SAN ANTONIO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does San Antonio mean? 

• SAN ANTONIO (noun)
  The noun SAN ANTONIO has 1 sense:

1. a city of south central Texas; site of the Alamo; site of several military bases and a popular haven for vacationers

  Familiarity information: SAN ANTONIO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAN ANTONIO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city of south central Texas; site of the Alamo; site of several military bases and a popular haven for vacationers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Domain member region:

Alamo (a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico)

Holonyms ("San Antonio" is a part of...):

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)

 Context examples 

It is part of UT Medicine San Antonio, the clinical practice of the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center.

(Cancer Therapy and Research Center, NCI Thesaurus)

The Eighth Street Bridge, crossing an arm of San Antonio Estuary, was the length of three city blocks.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"The combination of creativity and analytical thinking has once again paid off big time for NASA," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

"Secular variation has been on the wish list of planetary scientists for decades," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

(NASA's Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field, NASA)