SAN FRANCISCO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does San Francisco mean? 

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

1. a port in western California near the Golden Gate that is one of the major industrial and transportation centers; it has one of the world's finest harbors; site of the Golden Gate Bridge

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAN FRANCISCO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port in western California near the Golden Gate that is one of the major industrial and transportation centers; it has one of the world's finest harbors; site of the Golden Gate Bridge

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)

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 "San Francisco"):

Golden Gate Bridge (a suspension bridge across the Golden Gate)

Nob Hill (a fashionable neighborhood in San Francisco)

San Francisco Bay (a bay of the Pacific in western California)

Holonyms ("San Francisco" 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 

Martin was little acquainted in San Francisco, and not at all south of Market; so he had no idea of where he was being led.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was a great deal in San Francisco, it seems.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In San Francisco, a year ago.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Weedon, telegraph at once to San Francisco for Doctor Nichols.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“As she is going in the opposite direction, she is very probably bound for San Francisco.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Its capital is San Francisco de Campeche.

(Campeche, NCI Thesaurus)

To examine the potential link between klotho and cognition, Dr. Dena Dubal of the University of California, San Francisco, and her colleagues focused on a Klotho variant called KL-VS.

(Longevity gene linked to better brain skills, NIH, US)

In this study, speech scientists and neurologists from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) recreated many vocal sounds with varying accuracy using brain signals recorded from epilepsy patients with normal speaking abilities.

(Scientists translate brain signals into speech sounds, National Institutes of Health)

Concerning that night’s ride, the man spoke most eloquently for himself, in a little shed back of a saloon on the San Francisco water front.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A research team from University of California, San Francisco, searched for neurons that detect body temperature changes in the brain region that regulates nervous system functions like temperature and sleep: the preoptic area of the hypothalamus.

(Brain cells that cool the body, NIH)