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Tehachapi

Tehachapi proper noun: a city in Kern County, California, United States.

Proper noun

Tehachapi

  1. A city in Kern County, California, United States.
    • Folsom, another well-known institution, opened in 1880. Between 1880 and 1933, when a facility for women was opened in Tehachapi, there was not a single new prison constructed. In 1952, the California Institution for Women opened and Tehachapi became a new prison for men. In all, between 1852 and...2003, Angela Y. Davis, chapter 1, in Are Prisons Obsolete?, archived from the original on 19 May 2023, page 12
  2. Synonym of Kawaiisu (“a Uto-Aztecan language”).
    Synonyms:
    Kawaiisu
  3. A mountain range in California, United States, separating the Central Valley from the Mojave Desert, part of the Transverse Ranges.

Synonyms of Tehachapi

Origin of Tehachapi

From Kawaiisu tihačipía, from tihaa (“hard”) + čipii- (“to climb”).

Questions about Tehachapi

What does Tehachapi mean?
Tehachapi means a city in Kern County, California, United States.
What part of speech is Tehachapi?
Tehachapi is a proper noun.

Words near Tehachapi in the dictionary

  1. teguments
  2. teguminal
  3. tegus
  4. teh
  5. teh tarik
  6. Tehachapi
  7. Tehachapi Mountains
  8. Tehama
  9. Tehama County
  10. Tehan
  11. Tehani

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