Pasadena

English

Etymology

The place name in California is claimed to be from an Ojibwe word meaning “crown of the valley”.[1]

The town in Newfoundland is named after a farm which was named in turn for the city in California.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌpæsəˈdiːnə/
  • Hyphenation: Pas‧a‧de‧na
  • Rhymes: -iːnə

Proper noun

Pasadena

  1. A place in the United States:
    1. A city in Los Angeles County, California.
      • 2014 July 29, Steve Gorman, “NASA's Mars rover sets off-Earth, off-road distance record”, in Reuters‎[2]:
        On Sunday, the robot rover advanced another 157 feet (48 meters) as it continued along the rim of a Martian crater, putting Opportunity's total odometer at 25.01 miles (40.25 km), according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, California.
    2. A neighbourhood of St. Petersburg, Florida.
    3. A neighbourhood of Lexington, Kentucky.
    4. A census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
    5. A city in Harris County, Texas.
  2. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  3. A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Mitcham, South Australia.

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References

  1. ^ Pomeroy, Elizabeth (2007) Pasadena: A Natural History‎[1], →ISBN
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