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San Salvador

[ san sal-vuh-dawr; Spanish sahn sahl-vah-thawr ]

noun

  1. Also called Watling Island. an island in the E central Bahamas: long held to be the first land in the New World sighted by Christopher Columbus 1492. 60 sq. mi. (155 sq. km). Compare Samana Cay.
  2. a city in and the capital of El Salvador.


San Salvador

/ san salβaˈðɔr; sæn ˈsælvəˌdɔː /

noun

  1. the capital of El Salvador, situated in the SW central part: became capital in 1841; ruined by earthquakes in 1854 and 1873; university (1841). Pop: 1 472 000 (2005 est)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


San Salvador

  1. Capital of El Salvador and the largest city in the country, located in central El Salvador.


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The city has suffered from recurrent and severe earthquakes .
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Example Sentences

Though he served as mayor of the capital, San Salvador until 2018, Bukele ran for the presidency in 2019 as a political outsider.

From Time

Pulisic, who rejoined the squad this week after clearing coronavirus protocol, did not travel to San Salvador with the team on Wednesday and will miss Thursday’s game, as will probable starting goalkeeper Zach Steffen.

Within 24 hours, cryptocurrency devotees on Twitter were claiming San Salvador as the world’s next big tech hub.

From Quartz

Osorio Chavez’s home in Chalchuapa, about 50 miles from San Salvador, was being searched as part of the investigation when police said they found what appeared to be uneven, soft ground.

Fed-up voters found hope in 2019 in the person of 37-year-old Nayib Bukele, a former advertising exec turned mayor of San Salvador.

From Time

Columbus found the natives of San Salvador smoking after this manner.

He was born in San Salvador, and is about fifty-two years of age.

San Salvador Island, discovered and named by Columbus, 8, 10.

The first land reached was an island of the Bahama group, which he named San Salvador.

One of the San Salvador young men aboard us fancied some slight, experienced some fear, or may even,—who knows?

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