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Tia Juana

American  
[tee-uh wah-nuh] / ˈti ə ˈwɑ nə /

noun

  1. Tijuana.


Tia Juana British  
/ ˈtia ˈxwana, ˈtɪə ˈwɑːnə /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Tijuana

"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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The name is not Spanish which would be "Tia Juana," but Indian "Tiwana" was the pronunciation given by the Diegueno Indians.

From Time Magazine Archive

First effect of annexation would be the extinction of Tia Juana and Agua Caliente just over the border as drinking-racing-gambling resorts for U. S. tourists.

From Time Magazine Archive

This argued that Tia Juana had of her own volition slipped away from the house on some unknown mission, but to Willa such an hypothesis seemed unlikely.

From The Fifth Ace by Gage, George W.

From this signal, bending in a perfect crescent, with a silver rim, the shore sweeps around twenty-five miles to another promontory running down beyond Tia Juana to the Point of Rocks, in Mexican territory.

From Our Italy by Warner, Charles Dudley

I shall find Tia Juana, I shall obtain her order to treat with you, and you will come to an agreement with me on my own terms.

From The Fifth Ace by Gage, George W.

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