English Explanatory Dictionary

Sand Hill Road

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An arterial road in western Silicon Valley, California, running through Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Woodside, notable for its concentration of venture capital firms' offices.
  2. A neighborhood of Palo Alto, California, named after the road.
  3. The Californian venture capital industry, including its influence on Big Tech and biotech.

Word forms

Sand Hill Road

Etymology

The road and its name existed in the 1920s and possibly before. The road was evidently named as a route toward a place called Sand Hill, but the Sand Hill in Oakley is not the referent, as it lies in a distant part of the Bay Area. The neighborhood sense and the venture-capital industry sense are by metonymy and are many decades newer.

Synonyms

Sand Hill SHR Silicon Valley
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