Los Angeles

[laws an-juh-luhs, -leez, los, laws ang-guh-luhs, -leez, los]

noun

1. a seaport in SW California.

Los Angeles

¹

/ lɒs ˈændʒɪˌliːz /

noun

1. LA. a city in SW California, on the Pacific: the second largest city in the US, having absorbed many adjacent townships; industrial centre and port, with several universities. Pop: 3 819 951 (2003 est)

los Angeles

²

/ los ˈaŋxeles /

noun

1. See de los Angeles

Los Angeles

1. City in southern California, sprawling over nearly five hundred square miles.

The scene of the Watts Riots in 1965 and of another serious riot in 1992, triggered by the acquittal of white police officers accused of beating an African-American man named Rodney King.

A center of the entertainment industry; Hollywood is a district of Los Angeles.

Second most populous city in the United States.

Los Angeles suffers from serious smog pollution created by industry and large numbers of automobiles.

Example Sentences

The company established outposts in Los Angeles, New York, Austin, London and elsewhere, and at one point may have counted as many as 300,000 practitioners.

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We were driving up the 5 Freeway to a lawyer’s appointment in Los Angeles County to try to bail out her husband from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center.

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Lou V. Chapin, writing in the Los Angeles magazine Land of Sunshine, looked forward to the day when these “demoniacal specters of the plains” would be eradicated from the earth.

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Showers could linger in Los Angeles on Tuesday following four straight days of rain — and even more rain is likely on Thursday and Friday.

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The sheriff’s Special Victims Unit initiated the probe because one of the incidents occurred in East Los Angeles, according to Nicole Nishida, a department spokeswoman.

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