Santa Marta

[san-tuh mahr-tuh, sahn-tah mahr-tah]

noun

1. a seaport in northwestern Colombia.

2. a cactus, Heliocereus speciosus, of Mexico and Central America, having scarlet flowers 6–7 inches (15–17 centimeters) long.

Santa Marta

/ ˈsanta ˈmarta /

noun

1. a port in NW Colombia, on the Caribbean: the oldest city in Colombia, founded in 1525; terminus of the Atlantic railway from Bogotá (opened 1961). Pop: 454 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

The meeting - at the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta, where Pope Francis had been convalescing - lasted 20 minutes, with Buckingham Palace saying how "deeply touched" they had been by the Pope's "kind remarks" on their wedding anniversary.

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Francis made the choice of choosing to live in the simple Casa Santa Marta guesthouse, which was seen as revolutionary, but Leo may well decide to follow in the footsteps of virtually all his predecessors and reside in the grand Apostolic Palace.

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If the vote doesn't yield the two-third majority needed to elect the new pope, the cardinals go back to guesthouse Casa Santa Marta for dinner.

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The Vatican's Santa Marta guesthouse has 128 rooms.

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From the death of Pope Francis to the moment cardinals checked into the Santa Marta guesthouse and its overflow residences, there appeared to be a trend towards a desire for continuity of what Pope Francis had achieved.

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