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Calaveras County

Calaveras County proper noun: one of 58 counties in California, United States. County seat: San Andreas.

Proper noun

Calaveras County

  1. One of 58 counties in California, United States. County seat: San Andreas.
    • It may tell you that the official currency of Switzerland is the euro (it’s actually the Swiss franc) or that Mark Twain’s Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County could not only jump but talk. A.I. researchers call this generation of untruths “hallucination.”2023 January 10, Cade Metz, “A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2023

Origin of Calaveras County

From Spanish calaveras (“skulls”) + county.

Words formed from Calaveras County

Questions about Calaveras County

What does Calaveras County mean?
Calaveras County means one of 58 counties in California, United States. County seat: San Andreas.
What part of speech is Calaveras County?
Calaveras County is a proper noun.

Words near Calaveras County in the dictionary

  1. calavance
  2. calavances
  3. calavarial
  4. calavera
  5. calaveras
  6. Calaveras County
  7. Calaveras warbler
  8. Calaveras warblers
  9. calaverite
  10. calaverites
  11. Calaway

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