SACRAMENTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sacramento mean? 

• SACRAMENTO (noun)
  The noun SACRAMENTO has 1 sense:

1. a city in north central California 75 miles to the northeast of San Francisco on the Sacramento River; capital of California

  Familiarity information: SACRAMENTO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SACRAMENTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in north central California 75 miles to the northeast of San Francisco on the Sacramento River; capital of California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of California; Sacramento

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Holonyms ("Sacramento" 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 

Sacramento gives us our appropriations and therefore we kowtow to Sacramento, and to the Board of Regents, and to the party press, or to the press of both parties.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)