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La Brea

La Brea proper noun: a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

Proper noun

La Brea

  1. A neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
  2. A region of Los Angeles, California, United States.
  3. A town in Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.
    Synonyms:
    La Bray
  4. A region of Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.
  5. A district of Talara, Peru.

Synonyms of La Brea

  • La Bray

Forms of La Brea

alternative formla Brea
alternative formlaBrea
alternative formLaBrea
alternative formLabrea
alternative formBrea

Origin of La Brea

From Spanish La Brea, from la (“the”)+brea (“tar, pitch”). * (Los Angeles): Coined by Gaspar de Portolá in 1769 as Los Volcanes de Brea (The Tar Volcanoes), from the tar geyers found in the tar swamp that now exist as the La Brea Tar Pits park. * (Trinidad): From the asphalt lake and tar seeps found on the island of Trinidad by Spanish conquistadors.

Words formed from La Brea

Questions about La Brea

What does La Brea mean?
La Brea means a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
What part of speech is La Brea?
La Brea is a proper noun.

Words near La Brea in the dictionary

  1. La Bassée
  2. La Bastide-Clairence
  3. la belle indifference
  4. la belle indifférence
  5. la belle époque
  6. La Brea
  7. La Calle
  8. La Carlota
  9. La Castellana
  10. La Cañada Flintridge
  11. La Chapelle

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