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Saratoga
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- 1 The name of various towns in the USA:; A city in Santa Clara County, California.
- 2 The name of various towns in the USA:; A neighbourhood of Omaha, Nebraska, formerly a town also known as Saratoga Springs.
- 3 The name of various towns in the USA:; A town in Saratoga County, New York, adjacent to Saratoga Springs.
- 4 The name of various towns in the USA:; A number of townships in the United States, listed under Saratoga Township.
- 5 A locality in the Central Coast council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- 1 A cocktail resembling a Manhattan, with the base split between rye whiskey and cognac or brandy.
"But don't serve Saratogas to a meeting of the Ladies Aid Society. They're loaded with too much dynamite!"
- 2 Either of two species of osteoglossid fish of the genus Scleropages, native to northeastern Australia.
"They tell us that the fresh waters at Hainin must have been substantial, for they included the remains of a large predatorial fish known as a bonytongue, or saratoga."
Etymology
Corruption of a Mohawk word se-rach-ta-gue, sa-ra-ta-ke (“the hillside country of the quiet river”), which the early Dutch settlers interpreted as Sarachtoge. More at Saratoga.
Corruption of a Mohawk word se-rach-ta-gue, sa-ra-ta-ke (“the hillside country of the quiet river”), which the early Dutch settlers interpreted as Sarachtoge. More at Saratoga.
Origin unknown. Perhaps a mispronunciation of New Latin Ceratodus (“an extinct genus of lungfish”), which is from Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”).
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