Sauga

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Canada/ˈsɒ.ɡə/

proper noun

A nickname for the city of Mississauga.

Scrabble 6

Meanings

Sauga1

proper noun

alternative 'Sauga

  1. informalA nickname for the city of Mississauga.

    I lived and worked in Brampton, but I liked going home to "Sauga".

    2015 October 26, Sandra Ward-Cooper, Journeying Through Adversities: Part Two of an Autobiography, page 209
    2 more examples

    This what Sauga feels like in the night time / Watch what she doin' when the light shine

    2013, Jahron Brathwaite, Miguel Pimentel, “Break From Toronto”, performed by PartyNextDoor

    It traipses through Cooksville and Dacosta intones in the voice-over that particular community “embodies the true Sauga” he remembers before the film moves onto the Valleys, which to the filmmaker is not “just another neighbourhood” and was an extremely special place to grow up.

    2017 July 17, Chris Clay, “Mississauga filmmaker explores city of his youth in The Saugonian doc”, in Mississauga News, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2025

Sauga2

proper noun
  1. A tributary of the Pärnu.
  2. A small borough of Pärnu County, in southwestern Estonia.

    Meanwhile, the principal of the Estonian school in Sauga saw integration in a positive light as his students started to study Russian beginning in the sixth grade, and this program gave them practice.

    2005, David D. Laitin, “Culture Shift in a Postcommunist State”, in Zoltan Barany, Robert G. Moser, editors, Ethnic Politics After Communism, page 58

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

Sauga · proper noun

Clipping of Mississauga.

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Sauga · proper noun

  1. EstonianSauga
  2. EnglishSauga

From Estonian Sauga.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

Sauga. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sauga

MLA

“Sauga.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sauga. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sauga,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sauga.

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