Meanings
alameda1
Alameda2
- A municipality of Málaga, Spain.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A city in Alameda County, California.
The bloom was detected in late July in the Oakland and Alameda areas, and dead fish have since washed ashore in the bay as well as at Oakland’s Lake Merritt, California fish and wildlife department spokesperson Jordan Traverso said.
2022 September 3, Taylor Romine and Jason Hanna, “An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area”, in CNN - A neighbourhood of Miami, Florida.
- An unincorporated community in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, apparently named for a cottonwood grove.
- A neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon.
- A small town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Origin
alameda · noun
- Spanishálamo
- Spanishalameda
- Englishalameda
Borrowed from Spanish alameda.
More words from Spanish
Full word history & related roots →Alameda · proper noun
- Spanishalameda“avenue lined with poplars”
- EnglishAlameda
From Spanish alameda (“avenue lined with poplars”).
More words from Spanish
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
alameda. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alameda
“alameda.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alameda. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “alameda,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alameda.
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