Los Angeles

Meaning

1. A placename
2. An unincorporated community in La Salle County, Texas, United States.
3. Ellipsis of Los Angeles County: a county of California, United States. County seat: Los Angeles.
4. A census-designated place in Willacy County, Texas, United States.
5. A river in Los Angeles, California, United States; in full, Los Angeles River.
6. Synonym of 688
7. Synonym of 688: Ellipsis of Los Angeles class
8. A city and port, the county seat of Los Angeles County, the largest city in California, and the 2nd largest in the United States, famed for being the center of the American film industry.

Etymology / origin

An anglicized form of Spanish Los Ángeles, an ellipsis of Pueblo de los Ángeles (literally “Town of the Angels”), itself an ellipsis of Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (literally “Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola”), taken from the Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí's name for the nearby Los Angeles River, first sighted by the Portolá expedition on August 2, the feast day of the dedication of the chapel of Porziuncola (from Latin portiuncula, “little portion”) in Santa Maria degli Angeli (Italian for “Saint Mary of the Angels”) near Assisi, Italy, where St Francis began his order.

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