Etymology

Pasadena

Pas·a·de·na
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Today it means: A city in Los Angeles County, California. Full definition →

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The story

The place name in California is claimed to be from an Ojibwe word meaning “crown of the valley”. The town in Newfoundland is named after a farm which was named in turn for the city in California.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.