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Santiago

[ san-tee-ah-goh; Spanish sahn-tyah-gaw ]

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Chile, in the central part.
  2. Also called San·ti·a·go de Com·pos·te·la [san-tee-, ah, -goh d, uh, kom-p, uh, -, stel, -, uh, sahn-, tyah, -gaw , th, e kawm-paws-, te, -lah]. a city in NW Spain: pilgrimage center; cathedral.
  3. a city in SW Panama.


Santiago

/ ˌsæntɪˈɑːɡəʊ; sanˈtjaɣo /

noun

  1. the capital of Chile, at the foot of the Andes: commercial and industrial centre; two universities. Pop: 5 623 000 (2005 est) Official nameSantiago de Chilede ˈtʃile
  2. a city in the N Dominican Republic. Pop: 479 000 (2005 est) Official nameSantiago de los Caballerosde los kaβaˈʎeros
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Santiago

  1. Capital of Chile and the largest city in the country, located in central Chile; commercial and political center of Chile and one of the largest cities in South America .


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Jaar is the brooding and enigmatic son of internationally renowned artist Alfredo Jaar, raised in Santiago and Manhattan, a shape-shifter with an indelible sense of self.

Santiago makes just $520 a month working 12-hour days and she’s desperate to land a job overseas.

From Time

“I felt rage during the second surge,” Santiago says, convinced that it could have been prevented.

From Time

A finance major from Santiago, Chile, who spent years playing rugby and eating meat “very intensely,” he was doing an internship at JPMorgan in Hong Kong when he had an epiphany.

An agricultural and wine region that’s south of the capital, Santiago.

From Ozy

In May he attended the inauguration of a museum to house the works of the Ecuadorian painter Santiago Carbonell in Querétaro.

I take walks and listen to a lot of music, visit friends in Santiago or wherever.

Kevin Santiago, a Brooklyn high schooler, was targeted by a bully.

Stand-up kids like Kevin Santiago are a precious source of education for educators themselves.

Its final destination was Ferrol, a popular launching spot for religious pilgrims walking to Santiago de Compostelo.

One was to the deanship, of Santiago de Castro, a sick man who has not left his house for more than three years.

Parochial church of Santiago, a suburb of Manila, and the souls cared for therein.

Havana, however had long been flourishing before the seat of Government had been transferred to it from Santiago.

I was generally advised not to lose the opportunity, but rather to abandon my design of visiting Santiago.

Around Santiago, clay and sand predominate, and the soil can not be highly praised.

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