SANTA BARBARA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Santa Barbara mean? 

• SANTA BARBARA (noun)
  The noun SANTA BARBARA has 1 sense:

1. a town in southwestern California on the Pacific Ocean

  Familiarity information: SANTA BARBARA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANTA BARBARA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in southwestern California on the Pacific Ocean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Santa Barbara" 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 

A new collaboration between two UC Santa Barbara labs explored the underlying molecular mechanism of a remarkable process called anastasis, a Greek word meaning "rising to life."

(Cells Back from Brink of Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The scientists discovered that kelp also uses another form of dissolved nitrogen, urea, found in abundance in coastal upwelling zones such as the Santa Barbara Channel.

(Giant kelp switches diet when key nutrient becomes scarce, National Science Foundation)

Peters and his co-authors, UC Santa Barbara marine ecologists Dan Reed and Deron Burkepile, saw the local community of sea-bottom invertebrates as a likely additional nitrogen source.

(In search of an undersea kelp forest's missing nitrogen, National Science Foundation)

How about flying to Paris? Or in Italy, Venice, Sienna, or Rome? In the US, Carmel-by-the-Sea or Santa Barbara? In Spain, Seville, or in Canada, Victoria or Quebec City?

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The researchers used satellite images to determine changes in vegetation, and in the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed in different areas of a small city in El Cerrado the commune Aguas de Santa Barbara.

(Fire control harms biodiversity in Brazilian savannah, SciDev.Net)

I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back and I thought I'd never seen a girl so mad about her husband.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The girl who was with him got into the papers too because her arm was broken—she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

A week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night and ripped a front wheel off his car.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)