santa ana

Noun

• a city in western El Salvador

• a city in southern California to the east of Long Beach

• Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876)

• a strong hot dry wind that blows in winter from the deserts of southern California toward the Pacific Coast

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Santa Ana , Santa Anna , Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna , Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana