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San Bernardino

/ˌsæn ˌbɜːrnəˈdiːnoʊ/

San Bernardino proper noun: a city, the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States.

Proper noun

San Bernardino

  1. A city, the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States.
    • The center found in the month following the Paris attacks, from November 13 to December 13, the rate of anti-Islamic hate crimes tripled, compared with the monthly average from the previous five years. In the week following the San Bernardino attack, there were 11 suspected hate crimes alone.2016 February 18, Kyung Lah, “Fearing attacks, Muslim women learn self-defense”, in CNN, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2021

Origin of San Bernardino

Borrowed from Spanish San Bernardino (“Saint Bernardinus”).

Words formed from San Bernardino

Questions about San Bernardino

What does San Bernardino mean?
San Bernardino means a city, the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States.
What part of speech is San Bernardino?
San Bernardino is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce San Bernardino?
San Bernardino is pronounced /ˌsæn ˌbɜːrnəˈdiːnoʊ/.

Words near San Bernardino in the dictionary

  1. San Benito
  2. San Benito County
  3. San Bernabe
  4. San Bernardinan
  5. San Bernardinans
  6. San Bernardino
  7. San Bernardino County
  8. San Bernardo
  9. San Blas jay
  10. San Bruno
  11. San Buenaventura

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