santana

¹

[ san-tan-uh ]

noun

1. Informal. Santa Ana ( def 3 ).

Santana

²

[ san-tan-uh, -tah-nuh; Spanish sahn-tah-nah ]

noun

1. Pe·dro [pey, -droh, pe, -, th, r, aw], 1801–64, Dominican revolutionary and political leader: president 1844–48, 1853–56, 1858–61.

Word History and Origins

Origin of santana¹

By contraction

Example Sentences

Moses Santana, a Puerto Rican living in Philadelphia, is from a demographic which seemed reliably Democratic a decade or so ago.

From BBC

Carlos Santana and his wife, Susannah, stood outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in downtown Los Angeles, gazing at the casket of Fernando Valenzuela, the beloved Mexican-born pitcher for the Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times

“I’m saddened,” Santana, 72, said as he made his way in.

From Los Angeles Times

After a few internships, he found a job at Voice of OC, where he immediately caught the attention of publisher Norberto Santana Jr. The nonprofit news agency’s founder said he drilled into Gerda to treat local reporting “like electrical work, like plumbing — a methodical approach. Follow the money. And he was just solid from the start.”

From Los Angeles Times

Santana Jr. put the cub reporter on the county government beat, which is how he found himself at Do’s election night party in 2015, the first time Do ran for supervisor.

From Los Angeles Times