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San Antonio

San Antonio

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A large city in south central Texas known for historic sites like the Alamo
  • proper noun
  • /sæn ænˈtoʊnioʊ/
: San Antonio
  • I am a wholesaler in San Antonio, TX.
  • San Antonio, Texas
  • San Antonio, TX
  • the city of San Antonio

I am a wholesaler in San Antonio, TX.

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Examples

  • TDSL is an independently owned disposal company serving customers in Austin, San Antonio, and numerous counties in Central Texas.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Decades ago, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio were on much the same footing.

    Blog text (10)

  • Her family moved to San Antonio when she was a young girl.

    Academic text (1999)

  • My father had been home from San Antonio only two weeks when he had to leave for Dallas.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • There are only ten days left before the San Antonio Rock and Roll Marathon and Half Marathon.

    Blog text (1)

  • But I moved back to San Antonio, TX, and I thought, OK, what's next?

  • At many centers, including the one in San Antonio, there's already a long waiting list.

    Blog text (3)

  • A long, late breakfast and then a drive to one of the hamlets sprinkled around San Antonio.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Nonetheless, San Antonio's exile clergy offered irrefutable testimony to the excesses of the Mexican Revolution.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Few places can boast the magic of San Antonio's River Walk during the holiday season.

Surface Forms

San Antonio main

Morphology

San + Antonio

The components 'San' (Spanish for 'Saint') and 'Antonio' (a personal name) transparently indicate a name derived from 'Saint Anthony', and in many languages such formations commonly denote place names (e.g., towns named for saints). However, the specific sense here—a large city in Texas with particular historical and touristic associations—is not derivable from the constituents alone, so the full referential meaning requires world knowledge.

Etymology

San Antonio comes from Spanish explorers who reached the river on the day for 'Saint Anthony' and named the river after him. The town that grew beside that river took the same name, so the city's name is Spanish and tied to its old missions and church history.