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Nob Hill

Nob Hill proper noun: a neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

Proper noun

Nob Hill

  1. A neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
    • The first houses reached the windy upper slopes of Nob Hill in 1853, thirty million years after runoff from a faraway island met with the continent to form a land mass that includes today's Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill, […]2010, Katherine Powell Cohen, San Francisco's Nob Hill, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 7

Origin of Nob Hill

Shortening of nabob (“wealthy person”).

Words formed from Nob Hill

Questions about Nob Hill

What does Nob Hill mean?
Nob Hill means a neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
What part of speech is Nob Hill?
Nob Hill is a proper noun.

Words near Nob Hill in the dictionary

  1. nob
  2. nob end
  3. nob ends
  4. nob head
  5. nob heads
  6. Nob Hill
  7. nob jockey
  8. nob jockeys
  9. nob thatcher
  10. nob thatchers
  11. nob-end

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