Golden-gate-bridge
noun
1.
a bridge connecting N California with San Francisco peninsula. 4200-foot (1280-meter) center span.
A long suspension bridge across the Golden Gate, a strait that connects San Francisco Bay with the Pacific Ocean. For decades after it was opened in the 1930s, it had the longest span of any suspension bridge in the world.
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