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Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara proper noun: any of several cities.

Proper noun

Santa Barbara

  1. Any of several cities.
    1. A city, the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States.
      • The Santa Barbara oil spill has environmentalists and California officials scrambling as an estimated 105,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Pacific Ocean and onto the Golden State’s coast.2015 May 21, Eliott C. McLaughlin, “How does Santa Barbara match up with other U.S. oil spills?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2016
      • For the fifth consecutive year, the 94027 ZIP code (primarily Atherton) led the nation with a median list price of $7.75 million. Two more California ZIPs — both picturesque, coastal communities — made the top 10: 92657 (mostly Newport Coast), at $4.965 million, and 93108 (primarily Santa Barbara)...2024 November 28, Josh Ocampo, “Expensive ZIP Codes Have Something in Common”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2024
  2. An island of Santa Barbara County, California, off the coast, one of the Channel Islands.

Synonyms of Santa Barbara

Origin of Santa Barbara

Borrowed from Spanish Santa Bárbara (“Saint Barbara”).

Words formed from Santa Barbara

Questions about Santa Barbara

What does Santa Barbara mean?
Santa Barbara means any of several cities.
What part of speech is Santa Barbara?
Santa Barbara is a proper noun.

Words near Santa Barbara in the dictionary

  1. Santa Anan
  2. Santa Angela
  3. Santa Anita
  4. Santa Anna
  5. Santa Balbina
  6. Santa Barbara
  7. Santa Barbara County
  8. Santa Barbara shelled slug
  9. Santa Barbaran
  10. Santa Bárbara
  11. Santa Catalina

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