Santa

[ san-tuh; Spanish sahn-tah ]

noun

1. Santa Claus.
2. a river in W central Peru, flowing NW into the Pacific Ocean. About 200 miles (322 km) long.

Santa

/ ˈsæntə /

noun

1. See Santa Claus
   informal.
   short for Santa Claus

Example Sentences

My three-year-old son, Sam, would be meeting Santa for the first time.

From Outside Online

My son recently told me they do not plan to have a Christmas tree or have Santa as part of their holiday at their home.

From Washington Post

Instead, my Santa in 2020 came from the hand of love, which does not need desperate pleas, but tenderness and devotion.

From Washington Blade

Perhaps if you believe in Santa again, someone will bring you a house next year too.

From Washington Blade

I love this visit to a Christmas-y apartment in 1950s New York, this check-in at Santa’s office, and this peaceful mountain cabin in the middle of a blizzard.

From Vox

What, I suspect, we really want from Santa is peace (and quiet) at home for the holidays.

From The Daily Beast

An office manager, he says, was wearing an apron with Santa on it.

From The Daily Beast

So, feeling “a little loopy” from beers, he sat down and wrote a letter to Santa Claus.

From The Daily Beast

The incident sparked his belief in Santa, but he would have to wait nearly two decades before dressing up as Jolly St. Nick.

From The Daily Beast

Bohac vowed to that when he came back next year there would be no confusion about any Christmas tree or Santa aprons.

From The Daily Beast

General Santa Anna is within a mile of us with fifteen hundred men.

From Project Gutenberg

He inclosed it under a cover to the Marquis Santa Cruz, who had a villa in the neighbourhood.

From Project Gutenberg

In the midst of these meditations, the dungeon door opened, and Santa Cruz himself appeared on the threshold.

From Project Gutenberg

Santa Cruz embraced him, with more agitation than his stately mien might have announced.

From Project Gutenberg

This filtration did not happen in Santa Rosa, on account of the quantity of hard copper ore on which the engine is situated.

From Project Gutenberg