Santiago Synonyms

săntē-ägō, sän-
City in the northern Dominican Republic
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Santiago de los Caballeros
A port city in southeastern Cuba; industrial center
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. santiago de cuba
The capital and largest city of Chile; located in central Chile; one of the largest cities in South America
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Gran Santiago
  2. Santiago de Chile
  3. capital of Chile
A naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the United States fleet bottled up the Spanish ships in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba and destroyed them when they tried to escape
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. santiago de cuba

Santiago Sentence Examples

  • The provinces of Santa Fe, Cordoba and Santiago del Estero are only partially wooded; large areas of plains are intermingled with scrubby forests of algarrobo (Prosopis), quebracho-blanco (Aspido-sperma quebracho), tala (Celtis tala, Sellowiana, acuminata), acacias and other genera.

  • Santiago (now Oriente) province is high and mountainous.

  • In 1553 an expedition from Peru made their way through the mountain region and founded the city of Santiago del Estero, that of Tucuman in 1565, and that of Cordoba in 1573.

  • Urquiza at this juncture resigned the presidency, and Doctor Santiago Derqui was elected president of the fourteen provinces with the seat of government at Parana; while Urquiza became once more governor of Entre Rios, and Mitre was appointed governor of Buenos Aires.

  • The attack on Hispaniola, however, was a disastrous failure, and though a landing at Jamaica and the capture of the capital, Santiago de la Vega, was effected, the expedition was almost annihilated by disease; and Penn and Venables returned to England, when Cromwell threw them into the Tower.

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