SANTA CLARA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Santa Clara mean? 

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

1. a city of west central California; residential area with light industry

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANTA CLARA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city of west central California; residential area with light industry

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 ("Santa Clara" 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 

This he had never experienced at Judge Miller’s down in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Life was complex in the Santa Clara Valley after the simplicities of the Northland.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They hauled cabin logs and firewood, freighted up to the mines, and did all manner of work that horses did in the Santa Clara Valley.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The days came and went, streaming their unbroken sunshine over the Santa Clara Valley.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But this he was to learn early in his residence in Santa Clara Valley.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Sometimes he thought of Judge Miller’s big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley, and of the cement swimming-tank, and Ysabel, the Mexican hairless, and Toots, the Japanese pug; but oftener he remembered the man in the red sweater, the death of Curly, the great fight with Spitz, and the good things he had eaten or would like to eat.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)