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ˌsæn ænˈtoʊ niˌoʊsan an·to·nio

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. San Antonionoun

    a city of south central Texas; site of the Alamo; site of several military bases and a popular haven for vacationers

Wiktionary

  1. San Antonionoun

    A city in Texas, USA

Wikipedia

  1. San Antonio

    San Antonio ( SAN an-TOH-nee-oh; Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in Bexar County, Texas. The city is the seventh most populous in the United States, the second largest in the Southern United States, and the second most populous in Texas. It is the 12th most populous city in North America, with 1,434,625 residents as of 2020.Founded as a Spanish mission and colonial outpost in 1718, the city in 1731 became the first chartered civil settlement in what is now present-day Texas. The area was then part of the Spanish Empire. From 1821 to 1836, it was part of the Mexican Republic. It is the oldest municipality in Texas, having celebrated its 300th anniversary on May 1, 2018.From 2000 to 2010, the city was the fastest growing of the top ten largest cities in the United States; it was the second in growth in that category from 1990 to 2000. The city of San Antonio serves as the seat of Bexar County; San Antonio is the center of the San Antonio–New Braunfels metropolitan statistical area. Commonly called Greater San Antonio, the metropolitan area had a population of 2,601,788 based on the 2020 U.S. census estimates, making it the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States and third-largest in Texas.Straddling the regional divide between South and Central Texas, San Antonio anchors the southwestern corner of an urban megaregion colloquially known as the Texas Triangle. Downtown San Antonio and Downtown Austin are approximately 80 miles (130 km) apart, both falling along the Interstate 35 corridor. Some observers expect the two metropolitan regions to form a new metroplex similar to Dallas and Fort Worth.San Antonio was named by a 1691 Spanish expedition for the Portuguese priest Saint Anthony of Padua, whose feast day is June 13. The city contains five 18th-century Spanish frontier missions, including The Alamo and San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. Together these were designated as UNESCO World Heritage sites in 2015. Other notable attractions include the River Walk, the Tower of the Americas, SeaWorld San Antonio, the Alamo Bowl, and Marriage Island. Commercial entertainment includes Six Flags Fiesta Texas and Morgan's Wonderland amusement parks. According to the San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau, the city is visited by about 32 million tourists a year. It is home to the five-time National Basketball Association (NBA) champion San Antonio Spurs. It hosts the annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, one of the largest such events in the U.S. The U.S. Armed Forces have numerous facilities in and around San Antonio; Fort Sam Houston, which has Brooke Army Medical Center within it, is the only one within the city limits. Lackland Air Force Base, Randolph Air Force Base, Kelly Air Force Base, Camp Bullis, and Camp Stanley are outside the city limits. San Antonio is home to four Fortune 500 companies and the South Texas Medical Center, the only medical research and care provider in the South Texas region. San Antonio is also the largest majority-Hispanic city in the United States, with 64% of its population being Hispanic.

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  1. san antonio

    San Antonio is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the second most populous city in Texas and seventh most populous in the United States. San Antonio is known for its rich colonial heritage, including landmarks such as The Alamo, a historic Spanish mission and fortress compound, and the River Walk, a network of pedestrian walkways along the banks of the San Antonio River. The city is also home to several military bases, making it a hub for military-related services.

Wikidata

  1. San Antonio

    San Antonio is the seventh most populous city in the United States of America and the second most populous city in the state of Texas, with a population of 1.3 million. It was the fastest growing of the top 10 largest cities in the United States from 2000-2010, and the second from 1990-2000. The city is located in the American Southwest, the south–central part of Texas, and the southwestern corner of an urban region known as the Texas Triangle. San Antonio serves as the seat of Bexar County. The city has characteristics of other western urban centers in which there are sparsely populated areas and a low density rate outside of the city limits. San Antonio is the center of the San Antonio–New Braunfels Metropolitan Statistical Area. Commonly referred to as Greater San Antonio, the metropolitan area has a population of over 2.23 million based on the 2012 U.S. Census estimate, making it the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States and third-largest in the state of Texas. San Antonio was named for Saint Anthony of Padua, whose feast day is on June 13, when a Spanish expedition stopped in the area in 1691. Famous for Spanish missions, the Alamo, the River Walk, the Tower of the Americas, the Alamo Bowl, Marriage Island and host to SeaWorld and Six Flags Fiesta Texas theme parks, the city is visited by approximately 26 million tourists per year according to the San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau. The city is home to the four-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs and the annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, one of the largest in the country.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. San Antonio

    the second city of Texas, of Spanish origin, on a river of the name, 80 m. W. of Austin; has a Catholic college, cathedral, arsenal, &c.; does a good trade in the produce of a fertile neighbourhood, and manufactures flour, leather, beer, &c.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. san antonio

    A city of Texas, U. S., is built near the sources of the San Antonio River, 110 miles southwest of Austin. It is one of the oldest Spanish towns on the continent, and in the Texan revolution of 1836 was the scene of the massacre of the Alamo, when a garrison of 150 men, led by Col. Travis, and including David Crockett, was surrounded by several thousand Mexicans, and after a heroic resistance killed to the last man. It contains a national arsenal.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SAN ANTONIO in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SAN ANTONIO in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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  1. Oklahoma City:

    Just because San Antonio made a decision that's best for them, we( don't) have to do the same thing here, it has nothing to do with who we're playing. It's about what's best for us. If we need to do that, we'll do that. I never thought we should have rested our guys today.

  2. Courtesy José Ralat Ralat:

    That Austin is a Tex Mex town that historically has not had diversity until recently, for example, they like to claim breakfast tacos. Breakfast tacos did n’t come to That Austin until the ’80s. Meanwhile, in the ‘ 50s and earlier, they were being eaten in the Rio Grande Valley, on the border with Mexico City-style, and in San Antonio.

  3. Bobby Portis:

    Obviously last night we had a stinker, san Antonio, they just shot the hell out of it. But we’ve been coming together as a team. Hopefully, our team is trending in the right direction and peaking at the right time, knowing that the playoffs are a couple of weeks away.

  4. Air Force veteran Sunny Anderson:

    The city I’m most excited about is San Antonio Texas. It’s the city where I enlisted in the military.

  5. Texas DPS spokesman Christopher Olivarez:

    That is why we are experiencing an increase in human smuggling events along the border, many individuals from larger metropolitan areas such as Austin, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and even out of state are being recruited as drivers through social media platforms to smuggle illegal immigrants.


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