Miami Beach
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- proper noun
- /maɪˈæmi biːtʃ/
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Miami Beach
- During our vacation, we spent every day relaxing on the beaches of Miami Beach.
Examples
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The annual music festival will be held in Miami Beach this summer.
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Many tourists flock to Miami Beach each year for its beautiful sandy shores.
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We know what should be done, but we go to Miami Beach instead.
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I began to think I never would get to Miami Beach at all.
Fiction book (2000) -
The Convention Center took up an entire city block on Miami Beach.
Blog text (31) -
Miami Beach was the place where everyone we knew who had money went.
Fiction book (1993) -
Artie told us he worked in a gas station in Miami Beach.
Academic text (2009) -
Do you know the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach?
Fiction book (1992) -
Miami Beach has an incentive program for film and print productions.
Academic text (2006) -
Miami Beach has always been an international Mecca whose residents are as diverse as the tourists.
Academic text (2006)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'Miami Beach' is directly compositional: 'Miami' (the city) + 'beach' (shore) indicates the beach or coastal district associated with Miami, so a learner who knows both words can infer it is a seaside place or resort area. Although it is a proper name, the referential meaning follows transparent constituent logic and is cross-linguistically obvious.
Etymology
Miami Beach gets its name from Miami, which likely comes from an old Native American word 'Mayaimi' meaning 'big water', and from beach, the sandy shore. So Miami Beach paints the simple picture of a town on the sand by that 'big water', and today it names the famous seaside city.