Santa Cruz
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- proper noun
- /ˈsæntə kruːz/
- If you're in the Santa Cruz area and would like to get work done, please email me for appointment info.
- Santa Cruz, California
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- Watsonville is located up north by Santa Cruz.
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I asked him the way to Santa Cruz.
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Hi Jon, it's raining here in Santa Cruz County—our first fall rain.
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By now they should be at Santa Cruz.
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We have to make it to Santa Cruz before sunset.
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It was about 2005, and I was a student in Santa Cruz.
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She's going to UC Santa Cruz.
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After spending a week tattooing in Southern California, I jumped on the motorcycle and headed to Santa Cruz, California, for a week to visit friends and guest spot at FU Tattoo.
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Dave Lohse, Nate Fletcher, and Maya George of UC Santa Cruz, at the start of a biodiversity survey on Sage Beach.
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Jennifer Terry is a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writing a dissertation on the history of medical surveillance and the construction of "sexual deviance" in 20th-century America.
Academic text (1990)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Santa + Cruz
The elements 'Santa' and 'Cruz' (Spanish for 'Saint/Holy' and 'Cross') transparently signal a toponymic construction, so a learner who knows the constituents will likely infer this is a place name. However, the specific referent and properties (that it is a city in western California on Monterey Bay, known for tourism and a university) cannot be derived from the parts alone, so the transparency is only partial.
Etymology
Santa Cruz gets its name from the Spanish words Santa and Cruz, which mean 'holy' and 'cross'. Spanish explorers and priests used that name for a mission at the place, so the city still has the name Santa Cruz today.