HOW TO PRONOUNCE
salvador
/ˈsælvədɔɹ/
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What does salvador mean?
proper noun
- A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese.
- A surname from Spanish or Portuguese.
- A municipality, the state capital of Bahia, Brazil.
More meanings (3)
proper noun
- Ellipsis of San Salvador Island.
- (dated) El Salvador, a country in Central America.
- (historical) Former name of Santiago: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsælvədɔɹ/
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I learned that the two Vallejos, Guadalupe and Salvador, owned, at an early time, nearly all Napa and Sonoma, having princely estates.
When the ships of the Spanish admiral came to anchor before the Island of San Salvador, he had indeed discovered a “New World.”
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The SAN ISIDRO struck; and Nelson thought that the SALVADOR struck also.
Their numbers have rapidly decreased; they are already banished from that half of the island which lies to the eastward of the neck of land between St. Salvador Bay and Berkeley Sound.
They still adhere with striking pertinacity to the language they spoke when Columbus landed on San Salvador; and it is believed that that language is the same as the one inscribed on the most ancient monuments of their country.