Meanings
- A neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, United States.
The rainy days always make me sad / Miley Cyrus floats in a swimming pool in Toluca Lake / And you're the best girl I've ever had
2013, “Higgs Boson Blues”, in Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A lake near the fictitious town of Silent Hill from the franchise of the same name.
Origin
In 1893, a petition was filed with the U.S. Postal Service for the area’s first post office, to be named “Toluca Post Office”. General Charles Forman, a wealthy local landowner and one of the proponents of the petition, later stated that he had chosen the name “Toluca” from a Paiute word meaning “fertile” or “beautiful” valley.
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Toluca Lake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Toluca%20Lake
“Toluca Lake.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Toluca%20Lake. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Toluca Lake,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Toluca%20Lake.
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