"Las Vegas" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /lɑs ˈveɪɡəs/, /lɒs ˈveɪɡəs/ (note: hyperforeign, non-US)
Etymology: From Spanish las vegas (“the fertile meadows”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|las vegas||the fertile meadows}} Spanish las vegas (“the fertile meadows”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun|nolinkhead=1}} Las Vegas
  1. A desert city, the county seat of Clark County, Nevada, United States, known for its large hotels, extravagant entertainment and dining, and gambling. Categories (place): Cities in Nevada, USA, Cities in the United States, Las Vegas, Places in Nevada, USA, Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Las_Vegas-en-name-ni0cRP2U Categories (other): County seats of Nevada, USA, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. A city, the county seat of San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. Categories (place): Cities in New Mexico, USA, Cities in the United States, Las Vegas, Places in New Mexico, USA, Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Las_Vegas-en-name-4MeHkh2t Categories (other): County seats of New Mexico, USA, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Vegas, Sin City, The Strip Derived forms: Brisvegas, Las Vegan, Las Vegas rule, Vegas rule, what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas Translations (city): لَاس فِيغَاس (lās fīḡas) [feminine] (Arabic), لاس فيقس (lās fēgas) [Hijazi-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), Լաս Վեգաս (english: Las Vegas) (Armenian), লাস ভেগাস (laś bhegaś) (Bengali), 拉斯維加斯 (Chinese Mandarin), 拉斯维加斯 (Lāsīwéijiāsī) (Chinese Mandarin), Lasvegaso (Esperanto), Las Vegas [neuter] (German), Λας Βέγκας (Las Végkas) [neuter] (Greek), ラスベガス (Rasubegasu) (Japanese), 라스베이거스 (Raseubeigeoseu) (Korean), Campi (Latin), लास व्हेगस (lās vhegas) [neuter] (Marathi), Naʼazhǫǫsh Hatsoh (Navajo), Las Vegas [neuter] (Polish), Las Vegas [feminine] (Portuguese), لاس ویگَس (lās vegas) [masculine] (Punjabi), Лас-Ве́гас (Las-Végas) [masculine] (Russian), Las Vegas [feminine, plural] (Spanish), Las Vegas (Turkish), لاس ویگس (lās vegas) [masculine] (Urdu), Lát Vê-gát (Vietnamese)
Disambiguation of 'city': 47 53

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.