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Sierra en · PROPN

Meanings

1. A female given name of modern American usage, from the Spanish noun, confused with Ciara and Sarah.
2. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Sierra Nevada: a mountain range in the Western United States.
   alt of Sierra Nevada
   • Los Angeles would still be a piddling little town in a desert if it weren’t for Sierra snowmelt and city officials crafty enough to snooker eastern California farmers out of their water rights. 2023 August 6, Daniel Duane, “It’s August. Californians Are Still Skiing. Don’t Ask.”, in The New York Times:
   • I am going to the Sierra next weekend.
   • Most flocks in the Sierra and the Rocky Mountains live above the timber-line and at an altitude of twelve thousand feet. 1915 April 14, Enos A. Mills, “Wild Mountain Sheep”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:
3. A surname from Spanish.

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Deriveds

Sierran