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Sacramento

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˌsækɹəˈmɛntəʊ//
  • United States//ˌsækɹəˈmɛntoʊ//
  • United States//ˌsækɹəˈmɛnoʊ//

The capital city of California, United States and the county seat of Sacramento County.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The capital city of California, United States and the county seat of Sacramento County.

    Police on Monday said they have arrested one man who is a suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting in Sacramento that killed six people and wounded 12 others.

  2. 2

    The Californian government.

  3. 3

    A major river in northern California.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sacramento (“sacrament”).

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).