name
California
ka-lih-FAW-nee-uh
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The most populous U.S. state, on the Pacific coast, whose capital is Sacramento.
"They drove up the coast of California all summer."
Word Forms
Californias plural
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Etymology
Probably from a Utopian island of the Amazons named in a 16th-century Spanish novel.