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Sacramento

Sacramento

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A city that is the capital of California on the Sacramento River
  • proper noun
  • /sækrəˈmɛntoʊ/
translation icon : Sacramento
  • And the Knicks over Sacramento 97-96.
  • Sacramento River
  • Sacramento, California
  • Sacramento, CA

Rogan just had another show in Sacramento and Coco.

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Examples

  • I would be happy to relocate to Sacramento or any place you wanted.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • So I opened a restaurant in the town of Sacramento, CA at the Crocker Art Museum.

  • When I get to Sacramento, I would immediately destroy the car tax.

  • And I also got am at the Junior Theatre Festival and which is happens in Sacramento, which I just came from.

  • So I spent four days a week in Sacramento and three days a week in Los Angeles.

  • - I got a phone call today... from a coach at a junior college in Sacramento.

  • "I have to be on the bus for Sacramento leaving Harrison Street at eight in the morning."

    Fiction book (1999)
  • However, the Sacramento region was one of the fastest-growing areas in California in the 1960s.

    Academic text (2017)
  • It is just southeast of Sacramento, CA.

  • I visited Sacramento, the capital city of California, last summer.

Compounds

A long river in northern California that starts near Mount Shasta and flows to San Francisco Bay

A mountain range in southern New Mexico in the United States east of the Rio Grande

A large fish in the Sacramento River that people eat and catch for sport

Surface Forms

Sacramento main

Etymology

The word Sacramento comes from the Spanish word sacramento, which means 'sacrament' or 'something sacred'. Spanish explorers named the nearby river after a religious feast, and the city kept the river's name, so the name reminds us of something 'sacred'.