El Salvador
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- proper noun
- /ɛl sɑlˈvædɔr/
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El Salvador
- Immigrants in Maryland can use the Internet to send groceries and medicines to needy relatives in El Salvador or Vietnam.
- El Salvador and Honduras
- El Salvador and Guatemala
- El Salvador and Nicaragua
But the the workers who were on the bridge at the time of the collapse were from El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico.
- But the the workers who were on the bridge at the time of the collapse were from El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico.
- And with these third world countries like you guys are down on your nonprofits down in Peru, El Salvador has adopted it as its primary currency.
- OK, So someone is saying what does this mean for El Salvador as their president keeps gambling their money on Bitcoin?
Examples
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Before El Salvador's 12-year civil war, two landholding families dominated the area, which is famous for its fertile soil.
Academic text (2012) -
However, Panama ranked next to the bottom in maldistribution of income; only El Salvador did worse in this regard.
Academic text (1993) -
I am originally from El Salvador, but I live in New York now.
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I have to get back to El Salvador to see my baby born.
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Well, welcome to El Salvador, what do you think?
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I'm actually from El Salvador.
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My mother's from El Salvador.
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In the case of El Salvador, the U.S. government agenda stressed the importance and excellence of the election.
Academic text (1993) -
The UN-sponsored Truth Commission on El Salvador investigated human rights abuses that occurred during the civil war.
Blog text (19) -
I am originally from El Salvador, but I live in New York now.
Synonyms
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A country in Central America on the Pacific coast, officially called El Salvador
A country in Central America on the Pacific coast
Surface Forms
Morphology
El + Salvador
The phrase is transparently built from Spanish elements 'El' (the) + 'Salvador' (savior), so a learner who knows the constituents can infer it is a Spanish proper name and perhaps a place called 'The Savior'. However, the specific referent — that it is the name of a country in Central America — is conventional and not deducible solely from the parts, so the expression is only partially predictable.
Etymology
El Salvador comes from Spanish: El means 'the' and Salvador means 'savior'. Early Spanish settlers named the land for 'Jesus', so the country's name literally means 'the savior'.