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Salt Lake City

American  

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Utah, in the N part, near the Great Salt Lake.


Salt Lake City British  

noun

  1. a city in N central Utah, near the Great Salt Lake at an altitude of 1330 m (4300 ft): state capital; founded in 1847 by the Mormons as world capital of the Mormon Church; University of Utah (1850). Pop: 179 894 (2003 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

Salt Lake City Cultural  
  1. The capital of Utah and largest city in the state; located near the Great Salt Lake.


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Center of the Mormon Church.

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When Damia Sargent was a high-school senior in 2022, she received a promotional brochure from the Neumont College of Computer Science, a school she had never heard of before located in Salt Lake City.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Paxton has also gone to the Salt Lake City area 19 times, twice for listed business purposes.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

On Saturday at UFC 332 in Salt Lake City, Cong will be hoping she can invoke the same emotions in Brazilian Natalia Silva, when the pair fight for the vacant flyweight world title.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

During a 2001 business trip to the Outdoor Retailer Show in Salt Lake City, the pair chatted on the plane ride, caught a free outdoor concert and went for a swim.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

In Salt Lake City, a seventeen- year-old girl named Lauren Mulkey had freshly returned from a family vacation in Florida.

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