San Francisco
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1.0
- proper noun
- /sæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/
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San Francisco
- It is nice to be back in San Francisco in my home city.
- San Francisco Bay
- San Francisco, California
- San Francisco Bay Area
I just came back from San Francisco the night or no yesterday.
- I just came back from San Francisco the night or no yesterday.
- It is nice to be back in San Francisco in my home city.
- We went to San Francisco, lived with my aunt.
- This is from the San Francisco police.
- So there's a few schools in the San Francisco area that we visited.
- New York, Chicago, San Francisco, we're all beyond the Kyoto levels.
- So so let's let's take the grid streets of San Francisco north of Market.
- There used to be a service in San Francisco, which is where we got married.
Examples
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There is Cafe X in San Francisco where robots serve you coffee.
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We went to San Francisco, lived with my aunt.
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But outside of that, San Francisco was great, man.
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I just came back from San Francisco the night or no yesterday.
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Hey, San Francisco, thanks for coming to see me.
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For years now, this had been the only place in San Francisco where he felt real.
Fiction book (1998) -
San Francisco, San Francisco, I have arrived.
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My hope is to attend San Francisco State University to pursue a nursing career.
Academic text (2008) -
Philip P. Choy, 90, passed away at his San Francisco home last week.
Academic text (2017) -
I visited San Francisco last summer and took a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Surface Forms
Morphology
San + Francisco
As a fixed toponym, 'San Francisco' functions as a proper name whose meaning (a specific city and port in California) cannot be derived from its parts. Even if a learner recognises 'San' as 'Saint' in Spanish, that only signals a name origin and does not let a B1 learner infer the referent or its properties, so the expression is unpredictable from the constituents.
Etymology
San Francisco comes from the Spanish words San and Francisco, which mean 'Saint Francis'. Early Spanish settlers built a religious mission there named for Saint Francis, and the town and bay kept that name, so the city today is called San Francisco.