SAN JUAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does San Juan mean? 

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

1. the capital and largest city of Puerto Rico

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAN JUAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Puerto Rico

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)

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

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Porto Rico; PR; Puerto Rico (a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico)

 Context examples 

Out of 200 who were with me in the San Juan expedition, 145 died in a single night.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Real San Juan Colorado," he said.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet birth rates were higher among people to the North and East, in the San Juan Basin and northern San Juan regions of Northwest New Mexico and Southwest Colorado.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)