St. Paul
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- proper noun
- /seɪnt pɔl/
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San Pablo
- The city council in St. Paul, Minnesota passed a law guaranteeing, among other things, equal rights in housing, employment and education, regardless of sexual preference.
- Minneapolis-St. Paul
- St. Paul, Minnesota
- St. Paul, MN
Examples
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Tonight, it's St. Paul at Columbus.
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I flew out to St. Paul.
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Grew up right here in St. Paul.
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There was some family business that required them to go back to St. Paul.
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- I'm from St. Paul.
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Elka flew to St. Paul to have Thanksgiving with her parents and brother's family.
Fiction book (1990) -
Then we're on to Tucson, Seattle, the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, Oakland, and New Orleans.
Academic text (2002) -
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis probably was as new to the legalities as Anderson.
Academic text (2007) -
Children's voices waft across the frozen pond from St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
Fiction book (1996) -
The city council in St. Paul, Minnesota, recently approved new public park initiatives.
Synonyms
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The capital city of Minnesota on the Mississippi River next to Minneapolis
Surface Forms
Morphology
St. + Paul
If a learner knows that 'St.' is an abbreviation for 'Saint' and 'Paul' is a personal name, then the meaning — a saint (Christian figure) called Paul — is directly derivable from the constituents. The honorific + name pattern is cross-linguistically common, so the referential meaning is transparent even if detailed historical facts (apostle, epistles) require extra knowledge.
Etymology
St. Paul was named after a small chapel on a river bluff that a priest called St. Paul. One popular story says people began calling the growing settlement by the chapel's name, so the city's name comes from that saint.