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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

yosemite

/joʊˈsɛmɪti/

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What does yosemite mean?

proper noun

  1. An area of California, home to Yosemite National Park.

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/joʊˈsɛmɪti/

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Lesser mountain peaks of fantastic shapes-sheer Yosemite cliffs, single buttes, castles-had ventured singly from behind that same horizon barricade.
Stewart Edward WhiteThe Land of FootprintsProject Gutenberg ebook #1378
The walls, though not of the true Yosemite type either in form or sculpture, rise to a height of nearly two thousand feet.
John MuirSteep TrailsProject Gutenberg ebook #326
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Three days' advertisements brought in over six hundred and fifty applications, and afterward Edison had no trouble in obtaining all the first-class men he required, as settlers in the artificial Yosemite he was creating.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820