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Bakersfield

Bakersfield

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A city in south-central California at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley
  • proper noun
  • /ˈbeɪkərzˌfɪld/
: Bakersfield
  • For six decades, the dams have controlled flooding on the Kern, helping Bakersfield to grow and thrive.
  • Bakersfield, California
  • the city of Bakersfield

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Examples

  • I left Bakersfield in a travel bureau car, left my guitar in the trunk of another.

  • Oh, I live in Bakersfield now, but I got a job singing in Reno tomorrow.

  • Hey, does anybody know where Bakersfield is?

  • I wrote this, and I recorded it with a buddy down in Bakersfield.

  • What it all added up to was she had missed her connection to Bakersfield.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Our last question comes from Michelle in Bakersfield, CA.

  • Now we got a nice tailwind, so our flight time to Bakersfield should be just under three hours.

  • Doctor Rajiv Party was chief anesthesiologist at the Bakersfield Heart Hospital.

  • I signed off with Mister Vibroplex from Bakersfield and unplugged the crystal from my transmitter.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Bakersfield is a city known for its agricultural industry in south-central California.

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Etymology

The word Bakersfield comes from the surname Baker plus field, which means 'open land' or 'farm'. So the place name originally meant 'Baker's field', and that is why the city is called Bakersfield today.