Meanings
proper noun
- 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
Origin
Shortening of nabob (“wealthy person”).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
Nob Hill. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nob%20Hill
MLA
“Nob Hill.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nob%20Hill. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Nob Hill,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nob%20Hill.
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