Word.ws English Dictionary

Contra Costa

Contra Costa is the ellipsis of Contra Costa County.

Meaning of Contra Costa County

Proper noun

Contra Costa County

  1. One of 58 counties in California, United States. County seat: Martinez.
    • This image from body-worn camera video provided by the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office shows Tyrell Wilson, left, holding a knife in his right hand, in front of Officer Andrew Hall in the middle of an intersection, March 11, 2021, in Danville, California.2022 October 30, Alaa Elassar, Rebekah Riess, Joe Sutton, “Former California police officer involved in the fatal shooting of Tyrell Wilson won’t be charged”, in CNN, archived from the original on 12...
    Synonyms:
    County of Contra Costa, Contra Costa

Origin of Contra Costa

From Spanish Contra Costa (literally “opposite coast”), from contra + costa.

Words formed from Contra Costa

Questions about Contra Costa

What is Contra Costa the ellipsis of?
Contra Costa is the ellipsis of Contra Costa County.

Words near Contra Costa in the dictionary

  1. contours
  2. contr
  3. contr.
  4. contra
  5. Contra Bourdon
  6. Contra Costa
  7. Contra Costa Centre
  8. Contra Costa County
  9. contra dance
  10. contra danced
  11. contra dances

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Contra Costa (page history and authors); Contra Costa County (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Contra Costa.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/contra_costa. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.