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SANTA FE TRAIL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Santa Fe Trail mean?
• SANTA FE TRAIL (noun)
The noun SANTA FE TRAIL has 1 sense:
1. a trail that extends from Missouri to New Mexico; an important route for settlers moving west in the 19th century
Familiarity information: SANTA FE TRAIL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A trail that extends from Missouri to New Mexico; an important route for settlers moving west in the 19th century
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Instance hypernyms:
trail (a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country)
Holonyms ("Santa Fe Trail" is a part of...):
West; western United States (the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River)
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