Los Angeles

Meaning

Proper Noun

• city/and/port/county seat Los Angeles County (county) the largest city in California (state) and the 2nd largest in the USA (country), famed for being the center of the American film industry.
• Short form of Los Angeles River
• Short form of Los Angeles County
• CDP Willacy County (county) Texas (state) USA (country).
• (unincorporated) community La Salle County (county) Texas (state) USA (country).

Related

Similar words

• LA, City of Angels

Origin

• An anglicized form of Spanish pueblo de los ángeles, a clipping of pueblo de Nuestra Señora la reina de los ángeles de Porciúncula, taken from the Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí's name for the nearby Los Angeles River, first sighted by the Portolá expedition on August 2, the feast day of the dedication of the chapel of Porziuncola (from Latin portiuncula, “little portion”) in Santa Maria degli Angeli (Italian for “Saint Mary of the Angels”) near Assisi, Italy, where St Francis began his order.