Sonora

American  

[suh-nawr-uh, -nohr-uh, saw-naw-rah] / səˈnɔr ə, -ˈnoʊr ə, sɔˈnɔ rɑ /

noun

1. a state in NW Mexico. 70,484 sq. mi. (182,555 sq. km). Hermosillo.

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Sonora British  

/ soˈnora /

noun

1. a state of NW Mexico, on the Gulf of California: consists of a narrow coastal plain rising inland to the Sierra Madre Occidental; an important mining area in colonial times. Capital: Hermosillo. Pop: 2 213 370 (2000). Area: 184 934 sq km (71 403 sq miles)

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Other Word Forms

• Sonoran adjective

Example Sentences

A former migrant farm worker, Noriega immigrated to the United States from Sonora, Mexico, in the 1950s.

From Los Angeles Times

And the closing “Sonora” is a spirited epic with a gliding beat and a modal jam that sounds like the instrumental coda from the Who’s “Baba O’Riley” played by an early iteration of Kraftwerk.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sánchez and the officers protecting him had left Hermosillo, the capital of the state of Sonora, before sunrise on June 23 and by 7 a.m. had arrived in Altar.

From Los Angeles Times

The Sonora state public security secretariat said it had ruled out the possibility it was an attack or act of deliberate violence against civilians.

From BBC

The prosecutor's office in the northern state of Sonora said in a statement that "the working assumption is that the incident was accidental, and the investigation is looking into a transformer located inside the store."

From Barron's