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/kənsˌɛpsiˈoʊn/ Listen

Concepcion

noun

An industrial city in Chile to the south of Santiago.

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"Concepcion" Quotes from Famous Books

... first place was, as we ascertained from forward during the day, to intercept a Spanish blockade runner, the "Purissima Concepcion"; so we laid off the harbor and waited for the coming of the ship, which was supposed to have left Jamaica for Cienfuegos. The day was spent in cleaning up after our brief but lively battle, and when night came, ...

— A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" • Russell Doubleday

... dollars for whatever he might write in a year, and he accepted the handsome retainer. It did not stimulate him to remarkable output. He wrote four stories, including "How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar," and five poems, including "Concepcion de Arguello." The offer was ...

— A Backward Glance at Eighty • Charles A. Murdock

... slain, with nearly all the Spaniards in his galley, by the Chinese rowers thereon. See Morga's account of him in Sucesos, cap. v, or in Stanley's translation (Hakluyt Society's publications, no. 39), pp. 32-39; also La Concepcion's Hist. ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, V7, 1588-1591 • Emma Helen Blair

... perseverance he made his way to the Biobio river, leaving his family at Concepcion, the nearest comparatively civilized place. Here he meant to make his way to a village of independent Indians, with whose chief, Corbalan, he had hopes of entering ...

— Pioneers and Founders - or, Recent Workers in the Mission field • Charlotte Mary Yonge

Words linked to "Concepcion" : city, urban center, metropolis