SAN FRANCISCO BAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does San Francisco Bay mean? 

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

1. a bay of the Pacific in western California

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAN FRANCISCO BAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bay of the Pacific in western California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

bay; embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)

Holonyms ("San Francisco Bay" is a part of...):

San Francisco (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)

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

 Context examples 

He would recover from it, the scientific men said; and he did, ere the Bedford's anchor rumbled down in San Francisco Bay.

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

Had it not been my custom to run up to see him every Saturday afternoon and to stop over till Monday morning, this particular January Monday morning would not have found me afloat on San Francisco Bay.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)