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Los Angeles

[ laws an-juh-luhs, -leez, losor, often, laws ang-guh-luhs, -leez, los ]

noun

  1. a seaport in SW California.


Los Angeles

1

/ lɒs ˈændʒɪˌliːz /

noun

  1. a city in SW California, on the Pacific: the second largest city in the US, having absorbed many adjacent townships; industrial centre and port, with several universities. Pop: 3 819 951 (2003 est) LA
“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

los Angeles

2

/ los ˈaŋxeles /

noun

“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

Los Angeles

  1. City in southern California , sprawling over nearly five hundred square miles.
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Notes

The scene of the Watts Riots in 1965 and of another serious riot in 1992, triggered by the acquittal of white police officers accused of beating an African-American man named Rodney King.
A center of the entertainment industry; Hollywood is a district of Los Angeles.
Second most populous city in the United States.
Los Angeles suffers from serious smog pollution created by industry and large numbers of automobiles.
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Example Sentences

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He settled in the Los Angeles area in 2006 and joined the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department two years later.

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The Los Angeles museum had seen this coming.

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Why do tenants have to bring their own refrigerators to rent apartments in Los Angeles?

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The system brought less than a tenth of an inch to downtown Los Angeles and a third of an inch to the California State University Northridge campus, according to the weather service.

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The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has paid out about $1.5 billion for alleged abuse at the hands of Catholic priests.

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