Santa Cruz

[ san-tuh krooz; Spanish sahn-tah kroos ]

noun

1. a city on the coast of California.
2. an island in NW Santa Barbara Islands.
3. a city in central Bolivia.
4. St. Croix ( def 1 ).

Santa Cruz

¹

/ ˈsanta ˈkruθ /

noun

1. Santa CruzAlvaro de Bazán15261588MSpanishMILITARY: naval commander Alvaro de Bazán. 1526–88, Spanish naval commander, who proposed, assembled, and prepared the Spanish Armada but died shortly before it sailed for England

Santa Cruz

²

/ ˈsanta ˈkruθ; ˈsæntə ˈkruːz /

noun

1. a province of S Argentina, on the Atlantic: consists of a large part of Patagonia, with the forested foothills of the Andes in the west Capital: Río Gallegos. Pop: 206 897 (2000 est). Area: 243 940 sq km (94 186 sq miles)
2. a city in E Bolivia: the second largest town in Bolivia. Pop: 1 352 000 (2005 est)
3. another name for Saint Croix

Example Sentences

It even carried Arizona’s two majority-Latino counties, Santa Cruz and Yuma.

From Los Angeles Times

Take the sidewalk under the base of the pier to its end, descend a set of stairs, walk the coastal rock shelves for .3 mile and ascend the first stairs to Santa Cruz Avenue.

From Los Angeles Times

Clouds covered Santa Cruz Farm in Española, an hour and a half north of Albuquerque, as I rolled in late in the afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times

That earthquake changed Northern California forever — causing heavy damage to downtown Santa Cruz, parts of San Francisco, and causing the collapse of sections of Interstate 880 in Oakland and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

From Los Angeles Times

The unfair labor practice charge was co-signed by faculty associations at seven UC campuses, including Los Angeles, Irvine, San Diego, Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Davis and San Francisco.

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