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Nob Hill en · PROPN

Etymology

Shortening of nabob (“wealthy person”).

Meanings

  1. A neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
    • The first houses reached the windy upper slopes of Nob Hill in 1853, thirty million years after runoff from a faraway island met with the continent to form a land mass that includes today's Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill, […] 2010, Katherine Powell Cohen, San Francisco's Nob Hill, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:

Deriveds

Snob Hill