Monterey

[mon-tuh-rey]

noun

1. a city in W California, on Monterey Bay: the capital of California until 1847.

2. Monterey Jack.

Monterey

/ ˌmɒntəˈreɪ /

noun

1. a city in W California: capital of Spain's Pacific empire from 1774 to 1825; taken by the US (1846). Pop: 29 960 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

Researchers with the Nature Conservancy may release stars in cages in Monterey Bay as soon as September, replicating a step Hodin’s team took before sending them out on their own.

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Rashelle Diaz, a Monterey resident who reported the incident to authorities, has a different memory of the events.

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KION-TV, which serves Monterey, Salinas and Santa Cruz regions on California’s Central Coast, announced on its website that it would no longer produce its own local newscasts.

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But in January 2014, he stood outside the department’s Monterey Park headquarters, fighting emotion as he announced his resignation.

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In the 1970s, when people became concerned that gene-splicing techniques could lead to the production of super viruses, Baltimore organized a conference at Asilomar near Monterey to design a self-regulating system to monitor those experiments.

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