Pomona

[ puh-moh-nuh ]

noun

1. the ancient Roman goddess of the fruit of trees.
2. a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
3. Also called Mainland. the largest of the Orkney Islands, N of Scotland. 190 sq. mi. (490 sq. km)

Pomona

¹

/ pəˈməʊnə /

noun

1. in Orkney another name for Mainland

Pomona

²

/ pəˈməʊnə /

noun

1. the Roman goddess of fruit trees

Example Sentences

After studying at the Arkansas School for the Blind, which he said was “the only place that would have me,” he graduated from Pomona in 1956 and received a scholarship to study history at the University of Oxford.

From Washington Post

Cal Poly Pomona student Heather DeCosta described it as “kind of just boxing us in at all four sides of the street.”

From The Daily Beast

Cathy Corison: I fell in love with wine when I was 19, studying biology at Pomona College, 40 years ago.

From The Daily Beast

Blue says he grew up in Pomona, Calif., idolizing the gang life and the quick money that came along with it.

From The Daily Beast

Like Williams, she lived in Pomona, but her body was discovered in Riverside County.

From The Daily Beast

"We got one DNA sample off of Fields, and one on Pomona, and a partial sample in Los Angeles," says Brown.

From The Daily Beast

Over the archway are two sculptured figures in red terra-cotta, representing "Flora" and "Pomona."

From Project Gutenberg

The Nymphs are a company of neat charming virgins, living near the gardens of Pomona.

From Project Gutenberg

Pomona was a Hamadryad, and was so devoted to the care of her trees that she scorned the idea of love.

From Project Gutenberg

Vertumnus and Pomona were also Roman deities and presided over orchards and gardens.

From Project Gutenberg

The Pomona kept upon her course, while the white sails of the attacker grew fainter and fainter upon the horizon.

From Project Gutenberg