Meaning of Oakland | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The eighth-largest city in California, United States, and the county seat of Alameda County.
2. A township in Ontario, Canada.
3. A town, the county seat of Garrett County, Maryland, United States.
4. A city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.

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Examples

“There’s a YIMBY group in Somerville, Massachusetts, and one in Los Angeles; there’s a San Francisco YIMBY party and a YIMBY group in Portland. YIMBYtown, a national conference, will take place in Oakland this month; Helsinki is hosting Yimbycon in August.”

“We climb up and up into the Oakland hills, high enough we can see them spreading below, strung with roads, crusted with houses, fringed with trees.”

“The California counties include Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Bernardino, Ventura and others. Cities include Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, Long Beach, Malibu, Culver City and Huntington Beach (see the full list below).”

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