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Santa Maria

[ san-tuh muh-ree-uh; Spanish sahn-tah mah-ree-ah; Portuguese sahn-tuh mah-ree-ah ]

noun

  1. (italics) the flagship used by Columbus when he made his first voyage of discovery to America in 1492.
  2. an active volcano in W Guatemala. 12,300 feet (3,750 meters).
  3. a city in S Brazil.
  4. a city in W California.


Santa Maria

1

noun

  1. ˈsəntə maˈria a city in S Brazil, in Rio Grande do Sul state. Pop: 252 000 (2005 est)
  2. ˈsanta maˈria an active volcano in SW Guatemala. Height: 3768 m (12 362 ft)
“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


Santa Maria

2

/ ˈsæntə məˈriːə /

noun

  1. the Santa Maria
    the flagship of Columbus on his first voyage to America (1492)
“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
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Example Sentences

Hogar Santa Maria hopes it can use some of these same strategies that IOM uses.

Today, a forlorn air hangs over Santa Maria degli Angeli, like a graveyard where ghosts are buried.

His memoirs led Campagnol to a convent at the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli on Murano, where Mr. Casanova had a lover.

Nor, later, the Massacios from the church of Santa Maria del Carmine.

After ten hours' march, we arrived at the convent of Santa Maria, where we set to work to re-form our command.

His best ship, the Santa Maria, having been wrecked, forty men were left behind in a fort there.

I stumbled on a camp of Mexican wood-cutters, and one of 'em took me to the Santa Maria.

A fragrant resinous substance produced by calophyllum calaba, or Santa Maria tree.

In the head, described in the opening of this chapter, at Santa Maria Formosa, the teeth are represented as decayed.

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