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Bay Area

Bay Area is the ellipsis of San Francisco Bay Area.

Meaning of San Francisco Bay Area

Proper noun

San Francisco Bay Area

  1. A region of California, United States The nine or twelve counties surrounding the city of San Francisco.
    • An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent weeks, officials say, forcing shoreline cleanups, spreading unpleasant odor and spurring scientists to further investigate the extent of the ecological damage.2022 September 3, Taylor Romine and Jason Hanna, “An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    Bay Area, the Bay

Words formed from Bay Area

Questions about Bay Area

What is Bay Area the ellipsis of?
Bay Area is the ellipsis of San Francisco Bay Area.

Words near Bay Area in the dictionary

  1. baxters
  2. Baxters Ridge
  3. bay
  4. bay antler
  5. bay antlers
  6. Bay Area
  7. Bay Arean
  8. Bay Areans
  9. bay bean
  10. bay beans
  11. bay bolete

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bay Area (page history and authors); San Francisco Bay Area (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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