Ohio
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Ohio
- /oʊˈhaɪoʊ/ US
- /əˈhaɪoʊ/ US
- /əˈhaɪəʊ/ UK
- /əʊˈhʌɪəʊ/ UK
Rhymes with -aɪəʊ
Where it comes from
From Seneca Ohi꞉yoʼ, a proper name derived from ohi꞉yo꞉h (“good river”). The name of the Allegheny river, which the Lenape and Iroquois considered to be part of the same single river as the Ohio, means the same thing in Unami.
proper noun
- A state of the United States. Capital and largest city: Columbus. Mountweazel, the encyclopedia indicates, was born in Bangs, Ohio, in 1942, only to die “at 31 in an explosion while on assignment for Combustibles magazine.”
- A river in the United States, flowing 981 miles from the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania through Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois along state borders and emptying into the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois.
- Ellipsis of Ohio University.Ohio University
- A town in Herkimer County, New York.
- A village in Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Texas.
- A number of townships, listed under Ohio Township.
- A community in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia.
- A community in Digby County, Nova Scotia.
- A community in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.
