Salinas
name, noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 plural of salina form-of, plural
- 1 A city, the county seat of Monterey County, California, United States. countable, uncountable
- 2 plural of Salina form-of, plural
- 3 A coastal city in Santa Elena province, Ecuador. countable, uncountable
- 4 A parish in Ibarra canton, Imbabura province, Ecuador. countable, uncountable
- 5 A surname from Spanish. countable
Example
More examples"Salinas is the heart of Steinbeck country — and the fertile ground for some of his best-known classics, like East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath. The economic depression faced by the hard-working farmhands and fruit pickers he wrote about ended in the 1930's… but the now predominantly-Latino town of 150-thousand remains a struggling agricultural community. On a small side street, one of the town's three libraries bears Steinbeck's name. Outside the building, a statue of the Nobel Prize-winning author has a piece of rain-soaked cardboard dangling from its neck. It reads, 'Please do not close my library.'"
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Salinas, a metonymic occupational surname for a worker in a salt mine.
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