Ontario
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Ontario
- /ɒnˈtɛə.ɹi.əʊ/ UK
- /ɑnˈtɛəɹ.i.oʊ/ US
- /ɒnˈtɛə.ɹi.o/ Canada
- /ɒnˈtæɹ.i.o/ Canada
Where it comes from
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Proto-Iroquoian *-õːtaɹiʔ
Proto-North Iroquoian *-õtaɹeʔ
Wyandot ontari꞉iobor.?
English Ontario
Probably from Wyandot ontari꞉io (literally “great lake”). If so, ultimately from Proto-North Iroquoian *-õtaɹeʔ and Proto-Iroquoian * -õːtaɹiʔ. The Canadian province and New York county were named after the lake.
proper noun
- A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Toronto. In some Canadian provinces - namely Ontario, the largest by population - American booze will be pulled off the shelves indefinitely starting on Tuesday.
- A large lake in North America, between the Canadian province of Ontario and the American state of New York; one of the Great Lakes.
- A village in the Cayo District, Belize.
- A city in San Bernardino County, California.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Knox County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Lima Township, LaGrange County, Indiana.
- A community in Ames, Story County, Iowa.
- A town, hamlet, and census-designated place in Wayne County, New York.
- Ellipsis of Ontario County, New York.Ontario County
- A city in Richland County, Ohio.
- A city in Malheur County, Oregon. Dan Cummings, the community development director in Ontario, Ore., a city of roughly 11,000 people in the eastern part of the state, had spent some early mornings at his office in the days leading up to that clatter. […] Four years earlier, when Oregonians approved Measure 91 to legalize cannabis cu
- A populated place in North Bethlehem Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
- A populated place in Charlotte County, Virginia.
- A village in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
- Ellipsis of Ontario Township
- Ellipsis of Ontario County
