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Definitions for dallas
ˈdæl əsdal·las

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Dallasnoun

    a large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas located in the heart of the northern Texas oil fields

Wiktionary

  1. Dallasnoun

    A city in Texas, USA

  2. Dallasnoun

    A placename A large city, the county seat of Dallas County, in northeastern Texas, United States. A city, the county seat of Paulding County, Georgia, United States. A city, the county seat of Polk County, Oregon, United States. A small village in northwestern Moray council area, Scotland.

  3. Dallasnoun

    A surname.

  4. Dallasnoun

    A unisex given name transferred from the place name.

Wikipedia

  1. Dallas

    Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County with portions extending into Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties. With a 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the ninth most populous city in the U.S. and the third largest city in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea.Dallas and nearby Fort Worth were initially developed as a product of the construction of major railroad lines through the area allowing access to cotton, cattle, and later oil in North and East Texas. The construction of the Interstate Highway System reinforced Dallas's prominence as a transportation hub, with four major interstate highways converging in the city and a fifth interstate loop around it. Dallas then developed as a strong industrial and financial center and a major inland port, due to the convergence of major railroad lines, interstate highways and the construction of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, one of the largest and busiest airports in the world. In addition, Dallas has DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) with different colored train lines that transport throughout the Metroplex.Dominant sectors of its diverse economy include defense, financial services, information technology, telecommunications, and transportation. The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex hosts 23 Fortune 500 companies, the second most in Texas and fourth most in the United States, and 11 of those companies are located within Dallas city limits. Over 41 colleges and universities are located within its metropolitan area, which is the most of any metropolitan area in Texas. The city has a population from a myriad of ethnic and religious backgrounds and one of the largest LGBT communities in the U.S. WalletHub named Dallas the fifth most diverse city in the United States in 2018.

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  1. dallas

    Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the third largest city in Texas and the ninth largest city in the United States in terms of population. Dallas is known for its cultural hub, historical significance, and for being a major center for finance, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is also famously known for its NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys.

Wikidata

  1. Dallas

    Dallas is the ninth most populous city in the United States and the third most populous city in the state of Texas. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. The bulk of the city is in Dallas County, of which it is the county seat. However, slices of the city are located in Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties. The city had a population of 1,197,816 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau. The city is the largest economic center of the 12-county Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area had a population of 6,645,678 in 2012. The metroplex economy is the sixth largest in the United States, with a 2010 gross metropolitan product of $374 billion. Its 2010 Real GDP amounted to $325 billion. Dallas was founded in 1841 and formally incorporated as a city in February 1856. The city's economy is primarily based on banking, commerce, telecommunications, computer technology, energy, healthcare and medical research, transportation and logistics. The city is home to the third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation. Located in North Texas and a major city in the American South, Dallas is the main core of the largest inland metropolitan area in the United States that lacks any navigable link to the sea.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. DALLAS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Dallas is ranked #3761 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Dallas surname appeared 9,418 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Dallas.

    63.3% or 5,969 total occurrences were White.
    28.1% or 2,650 total occurrences were Black.
    2.7% or 261 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.4% or 234 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.3% or 224 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.8% or 80 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dallas in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dallas in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of dallas in a Sentence

  1. Marc Perry:

    Population growth this decade was almost entirely in metro areas, texas is a good example of this, where parts of the Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas Fort Worth, Midland and Odessa metro areas had population growth, whereas many of the state's other counties had population declines.

  2. Paul George:

    We have to win on the road more than win at home if we want to become champions, yeah, we have to take care of home court, but we've got other jobs to do. At the end of the day, we still have an opportunity to close this at home if we get this win in Dallas.

  3. Tom Jackson:

    However, the general social acceptance of hate and violence toward any and all law enforcement recently has created such an unpredictable and uncontrollable threat to our lives, many feel it is not a good career to be involved in. Statistics show the number of police officers feloniously killed in the line of duty had been on a downward trajectory since 1970. This year, cop deaths are up more than 50 percent, and the victims in Dallas, Baton Rouge and other cases were targeted for assassination rather than killed in the process of confronting dangerous criminals. According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, the number of officers fatally shot is already up 56 percent compared with last year. One person who is all too familiar with race-related riots and police problems is Tom Jackson, former police chief in Ferguson, Mo. The shooting of cops is going to hurt recruitment badly, how can you convince people to come to the profession, or stay in the profession, when hundreds of people are in front of them threatening to rape their grandkids ? Now officers' spouses and children are seeing cops going down and they are begging their loved ones to get out of the force or not sign up as planned, added Tom Jackson, who retired in March, 2015. According to Tom Jackson, Tom Jackson former department is still rocked by the heavy riots and remains 17 officers short – dropping from a full strength of 55 in Tom Jackson time to 38 now.

  4. Saquon Barkley:

    I’ve never really seen anything like Saquon Barkley. Saquon Barkley’s really LT-like, to be honest, yahoo Sports is what Yahoo Sports is. Saquon Barkley’s insane. Every week, [ Parsons is ] one of those guys that, even if I ca n’t watch Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons game, I ’ll look and say, ‘ What is Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons doing ? ’.

  5. Volodymyr Zelenskiy:

    It's like Santa Barbara... or no, Dallas.

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