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Definition of Sacramento

1. Noun. A city in north central California 75 miles to the northeast of San Francisco on the Sacramento River; capital of California.

Definition of Sacramento

1. Proper noun. The capital city of California ¹

2. Proper noun. A major river in Northern California ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Sacramento

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"Comparative meteorological tables showing mean and extremes of temperature each mo. at sacramento since 1853 and at SF since 1851; also mean temperature of ..."

2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"Besides the main lines sacramento county is honeycombed with branch lines of the Southern Pacific which have made possible the rapid development of her ..."

3. The Political Code of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch (1872)
"Mono County Seat to sacramento, Stockton, and San Quentin. 173. Monterey County Seat to sacramento, Stockton, and San Quentin. 174. ..."

4. Journal by California Legislature. Assembly, California, Legislature (1912)
"WHEREAS, The city of sacramento, a municipal corporation of the county of sacramento. State of California, now is. and was at all the times herein mentioned ..."

5. The Resources of California: Comprising Agriculture, Mining, Geography by John Shertzer Hittell (1863)
"sacramento,—sacramento City, the political capital and second town of California, is situated near the centre of the sacramento basin and of the state—is ..."

6. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1908)
"COUNTY FREE LIBRARY EXTENSION — THE sacramento PLAN (From News Notes of California Libraries, October) THE maintenance of a national library is deemed to be ..."

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