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I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.
Robert Matsui

Meaning of "Sacramento" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SACRAMENTO

Sacramento  [ˌsækrəˈmɛntəʊ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SACRAMENTO

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Sacramento is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SACRAMENTO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sacramento

Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of government of Sacramento County. It is at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With an estimated 2011 population of 477,892, it is the sixth-largest city in California and the 35th largest city in the United States. Sacramento is the core cultural and economic center of the Sacramento metropolitan area which includes seven counties with an estimated 2009 population of 2,527,123. Its metropolitan area is the fourth largest in California after the Greater Los Angeles Area, San Francisco Bay Area, and the San Diego metropolitan area, as well as the 27th largest in the United States. In 2002, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University conducted for TIME magazine named Sacramento “America’s Most Diverse City.” Sacramento became a city through the efforts of the Swiss immigrant John Sutter, Sr., his son John Sutter, Jr., and James W. Marshall. Sacramento grew quickly thanks to the protection of Sutter's Fort, which was established by Sutter in 1839.

Definition of Sacramento in the English dictionary

The definition of Sacramento in the dictionary is an inland port in N central California, capital of the state at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers: became a boom town in the gold rush of the 1850s. Pop: 445 335. Other definition of Sacramento is a river in N California, flowing generally south to San Francisco Bay. Length: 615 km.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SACRAMENTO


assiento
ˌæsɪˈɛntəʊ
Benevento
ˌbɛnəˈvɛntəʊ
bento
ˈbɛntəʊ
cento
ˈsɛntəʊ
cinquecento
ˌtʃɪŋkwɪˈtʃɛntəʊ
divertimento
dɪˌvɜːtɪˈmɛntəʊ
junto
ˈdʒʊntəʊ
lento
ˈlɛntəʊ
memento
mɪˈmɛntəʊ
mento
ˈmɛntəʊ
pentimento
ˌpɛntɪˈmɛntəʊ
pimento
pɪˈmɛntəʊ
pimiento
pɪˈmjɛntəʊ
portamento
ˌpɔːtəˈmɛntəʊ
pronunciamento
prəˌnʌnsɪəˈmɛntəʊ
quattrocento
ˌkwætrəʊˈtʃɛntəʊ
rifacimento
rɪˌfætʃɪˈmɛntəʊ
Risorgimento
rɪˌsɔːdʒɪˈmɛntəʊ
Sorrento
səˈrɛntəʊ
trecento
treɪˈtʃɛntəʊ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SACRAMENTO

Sacramentarian
Sacramentarianism
sacramentary
sacraria
sacrarial
sacrarium
sacred
sacred baboon
Sacred College
sacred cow
Sacred Heart
Sacred History

WORDS THAT END LIKE SACRAMENTO

aggiornamento
Agrigento
beento
canto
conjunto
conto
duecento
Esperanto
get into
into
obento
onto
Papiamento
pinto
pronto
santo
seicento
tanto
Toronto
Trento

Synonyms and antonyms of Sacramento in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Sacramento» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SACRAMENTO

Find out the translation of Sacramento to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Sacramento from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Sacramento» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

萨克拉门托
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Sacramento
570 millions of speakers

English

Sacramento
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सैक्रामेंटो
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

سكرامنتو
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Сакраменто
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Sacramento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সাক্রামেন্টো
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Sacramento
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sacramento
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sacramento
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

サクラメント
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

새크라멘토
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sacramento
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Sacramento
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சேக்ரமெண்டோ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सॅक्रामेंटो
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sacramento
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Sacramento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Sacramento
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Сакраменто
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Sacramento
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Σακραμέντο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Sacramento
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Sacramento
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Sacramento
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Sacramento

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SACRAMENTO»

The term «Sacramento» is very widely used and occupies the 8.255 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SACRAMENTO» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Sacramento

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8 QUOTES WITH «SACRAMENTO»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Sacramento.
1
Ryan Guzman
I'm Mexican-American. My dad was actually born in Mexico. He was raised up there, and he came back and forth to America pretty much his whole teenage years. My mom is from Sacramento, California, and she's a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl. She's a whitey.
2
Annie Jacobsen
In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.
3
Nick Johnson
I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!
4
Robert Matsui
I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.
5
Harry Shearer
I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.
6
Tracy K. Smith
I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.
7
Wayne Thiebaud
The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
8
Sarah Zettel
I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SACRAMENTO»

Discover the use of Sacramento in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Sacramento and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sacramento Street Whys
It might not be the one that you think. To find out the answers to the above, and whether Tesla Way was named for the inventor or the rock band, you'll want this book.
Carlos Alcalá, 2007
2
Sacramento: Indomitable City
Born of a country's collective desire for riches, Sacramento was resolute in its survival while other Gold Rush towns faded into history.
Steven M. Avella, 2003
3
Locke and the Sacramento Delta Chinatowns
Chinese pioneers in the Sacramento River Delta were the vital factor in reclaiming land and made significant contributions to California's agricultural industry from farming to canning.
Lawrence Tom, Brian Tom, 2013
4
Sacramento's Streetcars
Sacramentans rode the cars to work, to school, to the state fair, and just about anywhere they wanted to go until the streetcars were replaced by buses owned by National City Lines.
William Burg, 2006
5
Sacramento's Midtown
As Sacramento's neighborhoods grew eastward from Fifteenth Street to Thirty-first Street (later Alhambra Boulevard), the area evolved into a complex mix of housing and businesses known as Midtown.
Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center, Historic Old Sacramento Foundation (Sacramento, Calif.), 2006
6
Sacramento: Including Davis, Roseville, and Auburn
Using author Jordan Summers' careful, hiking-based research, this useful guide introduces area residents and visitors to an array of the best day-hikes — from casual riverside nature walks to rugged foothill treks — within roughly an ...
Jordan Summers, 2008
7
West Sacramento
West Sacramento, in Yolo County, is just across the river from the state capital that shares part of its name. But it has a very distinct history.
West Sacramento Historical Society, 2004
8
Sacramento Northern Railway
The Sacramento Northern Railway was once a critical interurban link between California's northern Central Valley communities, the state capital, and the Bay Area.
Paul C. Trimble, 2005
9
Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the ...
Robert Kelley sets that battle within the encompassing national political culture, which produced, through the Republican and Democratic parties, widely diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the Valley from flood.
Robert Kelley, 1998
10
Sacramento's Southern Pacific Shops
In 1862, the Central Pacific Railroad was founded and began building eastward from Sacramento as part of the transcontinental railroad.
Kevin W. Hecteman, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SACRAMENTO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Sacramento is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cal Fire: 4 Firefighters Burned While Fighting Lowell Fire
The blaze erupted at around 2:30 p.m. and forced evacuations of some communities in and near Nevada County, about 45 miles northeast of Sacramento. «CBS Local, Jul 15»
2
California adopts strict lawn-reduction rules for drought savings
Tim Murphy, chief executive of the Sacramento Regional Builders Exchange, said the proposal would add several layers of complexity to California's already ... «Sacramento Bee, Jul 15»
3
California assisted death bill appears finished for the year
Of the 19 committee members contacted by The Sacramento Bee, just four said they would support the bill in its current form. Proponents said they would ... «Sacramento Bee, Jul 15»
4
Jerry Brown signs California vaccine bill
When she heard at the vigil that Brown had signed the bill, Kimberly McCauley of Sacramento sat down on the steps and cried. McCauley carried pictures of her ... «Sacramento Bee, Jun 15»
5
DeMarcus Cousins, agents can't continue to keep Kings hostage
Does he want to continue his career in Sacramento, led by an innovative and ... Sacramento Kings head coach George Karl signs autographs for kids following ... «Sacramento Bee, Jun 15»
6
California Senate approves assisted death law
By Hector Amezcua, The Sacramento Bee. Alexei Koseff: (916) 321-5236, @akoseff. How they voted. Here's how Sacramento-area senators voted on SB 128:. «Sacramento Bee, Jun 15»
7
Environmentalists sue over California drought management plan
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, comes less than a week after the water board issued an order temporarily curbing the flow of water from Lake ... «Sacramento Bee, Jun 15»
8
California farmers brace for more water cuts
Notably, Milligan said the effects could be felt in Folsom, Roseville and other Sacramento-area municipalities that rely on Folsom Lake. That's because Folsom ... «Sacramento Bee, Jun 15»
9
California accepts drought water deal with Delta farmers
... curtailment orders to the state's most senior water rights holders to cope with the drought; growers in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have among the most ... «Sacramento Bee, May 15»
10
Critics take aim at Nestlé bottled water plant in Sacramento
As Californians face deepening cuts in water usage because of the drought, critics are raising concerns about tens of millions of gallons of Sacramento ... «Sacramento Bee, Apr 15»

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