Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nob hill

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English

Syllables: nob hill
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

Example Sentences

"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, […]"

Etymology

Shortening of nabob (“wealthy person”).

Phrases

Snob Hill

Questions

What does nob hill mean?: A neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
Where does nob hill come from?: Shortening of nabob (“wealthy person”).

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