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Santa Maria
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What does Santa Maria mean?
proper noun
- A city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.
- A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
- Various municipalities of the Philippines.
More meanings (5)
proper noun
- A neighborhood of Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands.
- Synonym of Saint Mary in Spanish and Portuguese contexts.
- Ellipsis of Santa Maria degli Angeli: a village in Perugia, Umbria, Italy.
- (historical) Former name of Floreana: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador.
- (historical) Ellipsis of Santa Maria de la Concepcion: the second island discovered on Christopher Columbus's first voyage.
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Beneath his own frescoes they laid him to rest in the church of Santa Maria Novella.
“Santa Maria! I do not know,” she said; and swooned all her length on the matted floor.
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In proportion as we descended the mountain of Santa Maria, we saw the arborescent ferns diminish, and the number of palm-trees increase.
‘The other bodies, for whom nothing is paid, are taken to the church of the Santa Maria della Consolázione,’ he continued, ‘and brought here altogether, in the cart at night.’
Columbus, in the Santa Maria, sailing these seas more than four hundred years before, was not so happy as I, nor so sure of success in what he had undertaken.