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Toluca Lake

Toluca Lake proper noun: a neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Proper noun

Toluca Lake

  1. A neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, United States.
    • The rainy days always make me sad / Miley Cyrus floats in a swimming pool in Toluca Lake / And you're the best girl I've ever had2013, “Higgs Boson Blues”, in Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  2. A lake near the fictitious town of Silent Hill from the franchise of the same name.

Origin of Toluca Lake

In 1893, a petition was filed with the U.S. Postal Service for the area’s first post office, to be named “Toluca Post Office”. General Charles Forman, a wealthy local landowner and one of the proponents of the petition, later stated that he had chosen the name “Toluca” from a Paiute word meaning “fertile” or “beautiful” valley.

Questions about Toluca Lake

What does Toluca Lake mean?
Toluca Lake means a neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, United States.
What part of speech is Toluca Lake?
Toluca Lake is a proper noun.

Words near Toluca Lake in the dictionary

  1. toluamide
  2. toluamides
  3. toluate
  4. toluates
  5. Toluca
  6. Toluca Lake
  7. toluene
  8. toluenes
  9. toluenesulfonamide
  10. toluenesulfonate
  11. toluenesulfonates

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