Long Beach
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- proper noun
- /lɔŋ biːtʃ/
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Long Beach
- The port of Long Beach is a critical hub for trade and transportation in the region.
- Long Beach, California
- Port of Long Beach
- Long Beach Airport
Our first mission was to provide Long Beach with a place that had real Whole Foods.
- Our first mission was to provide Long Beach with a place that had real Whole Foods.
- That was a local Long Beach record store that pioneered my career.
- But my brother lives out in Long Beach, so he has to drive all the way here.
- I could go to downtown LA or go to Long Beach, but for my friends it wasn't the case.
- I think the port, port of Long Beach is the, the most active port in the country.
- Firstly, what are the stories that a lot of your students want to tell here at Long Beach?
- I've worked with hundreds, actually thousands of immigrants at Long Beach Community College and in other places as well.
- I'm checking in for my flight and basically I'm flying from Austin to Long Beach, CA and then my mom and brother are flying from Indiana to Long Beach.
- Then I came back up to came back up to LA and on the newscast that exact same week, it was talking about a young girl who was prostituting herself on Long Beach Blvd.
- And I hung on the fence at the Long Beach Grand Prix watching Michael Andretti and Jimmy Vassar and Alan Sir Junior and Rick Mears and all these guys race.
Examples
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Three years ago, Gran broke her hip and landed in a Long Beach nursing home.
Fiction book (2002) -
I am so sorry about what has happened to your friends in Long Beach.
Blog text (7) -
But my brother lives out in Long Beach, so he has to drive all the way here.
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I think the port, port of Long Beach is the, the most active port in the country.
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Everybody, welcome to the Long Beach Youth Football League Championship.
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You still have time to register for some classes at Long Beach Community College.
Fiction book (2002) -
The Long Beach area has a very busy working port area near downtown Long Beach.
Blog text (14) -
My husband and I live in Long Beach now, but you have found all of our old haunts.
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So we're going to Long Beach for the Toyota Grand Prix.
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I'm here in my hometown of Long Beach, the LBC.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Long + beach
The name 'Long Beach' is compositionally transparent as a descriptive place name: combining 'long' + 'beach' yields the understandable idea of a beach that is long, so learners who know both words will infer it denotes a place with a long shoreline. However, its status as a specific proper noun referring to a city/port in California is world-knowledge beyond the constituent meanings, so the exact referent is not fully derivable from the words alone.
Etymology
Long Beach may come from the long stretch of sand on its coast: the words long and beach describe the town's long shore. So the name now means a 'city by the sea' and is used for the coastal city itself.