LOS ANGELES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Los Angeles mean? 

• LOS ANGELES (noun)
  The noun LOS ANGELES has 1 sense:

1. a city in southern California; motion picture capital of the world; most populous city of California and second largest in the United States

  Familiarity information: LOS ANGELES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOS ANGELES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southern California; motion picture capital of the world; most populous city of California and second largest in the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

City of the Angels; L.A.; Los Angeles

Instance hypernyms:

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

point of entry; port of entry (a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise)

Meronyms (parts of "Los Angeles"):

Catalina Island; Santa Catalina (an island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California)

Holonyms ("Los Angeles" is a part of...):

CA; Calif.; California; Golden State (a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes)

 Context examples 

Dr. Steve Horvath from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues set out to investigate the relationship between epigenetic age and mortality.

(DNA changes predict longevity, NIH)

The research conducted by the University of California Los Angeles set out to examine the effects of the ingredient on people with mild, age-related memory loss.

(Daily Consumption of Turmeric Could Improve Memory, Mood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles reveal that their snow-based triboelectric nanogenerator — snow TENG as they refer to it — uses static electricity to generate charge.

(Nanogenerator Creates Electricity from Snowfall, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

My daughter who lives in Los Angeles needed a new mattress and box spring, and I said I would give her that for her birthday.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It is affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles and was designated as an NCI comprehensive cancer center in 1974.

(Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

This water is too inaccessible to be used for human purposes, but for comparison, the amount is 45 times as much water as Los Angeles currently uses in a year.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)

A study led by Eleonora Ammannito of the University of California, Los Angeles, finds that clay-forming minerals called phyllosilicates are all over Ceres.

(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)

Jo Anne Val Tilburg of the University of California, Los Angeles disagreed with these findings: The existence of fresh water seeps near coastal ahu is well-known and was certainly important at European contact.

(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)

And therein may be the Kalahari's greatest challenge, say scientists Paolo D'Odorico of the University of Virginia and Greg Okin of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, developed a lightweight microscope that attaches to a cell phone.

(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)