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Santo Domingo
[san-toh duh-ming-goh, sahn-taw thaw-meeng-gaw]
noun
Formerly Ciudad Trujillo.a city in and the capital of the Dominican Republic, on the southern coast: first European settlement in America 1496.
a former name of Dominican Republic.
a former name of Hispaniola.
Santo Domingo
/ ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo, ˈsæntəʊ dəˈmɪŋɡəʊ /
noun
Former name (1936–61): Ciudad Trujillo.the capital and chief port of the Dominican Republic, on the S coast: the oldest continuous European settlement in the Americas, founded in 1496; university (1538). Pop: 1 920 000 (2005 est)
the former name (until 1844) of the Dominican Republic
another name (esp in colonial times) for Hispaniola
Example Sentences
Recreation and Parks Department spokeswoman Rose Watson said department Assistant General Manager Cathie Santo Domingo and a maintenance team discovered the cracks in the pool.
The Dominican Republic says it has arrested more than 130 Haitian women and children on the first day of a crackdown of undocumented migrants in Santo Domingo's hospitals.
New York Mayor Eric Adams travelled to Santo Domingo on Sunday and visited the site of the disaster.
Hundreds of rescue workers in the Dominican Republic have been searching through the night for survivors of a roof collapse at a nightclub in the capital, Santo Domingo.
Hidden in a banana shipment, officials found 9,500kg of the drug at a port in the capital, Santo Domingo.
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