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I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.'
Linwood Barclay

Meaning of "Ontario" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ONTARIO

Ontario  [ɒnˈtɛərɪəʊ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ONTARIO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ontario is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ONTARIO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ontario

Ontario

Ontario i/ɒnˈtɛərioʊ/ is one of the ten provinces of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province by a large margin, accounting for nearly 40% of all Canadians, and is the second largest province in total area. Ontario is fourth largest in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east, and to the south by the U.S. states of Minnesota, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. All but a small part of Ontario's 2,700 km border with the United States follows inland waterways: from the west at Lake of the Woods, eastward along the major rivers and lakes of the Great Lakes/Saint Lawrence River drainage system. These are the Rainy River, the Pigeon River, Lake Superior, the St. Marys River, Lake Huron, the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River, Lake Erie, the Niagara River, Lake Ontario and along the St.

Definition of Ontario in the English dictionary

The definition of Ontario in the dictionary is a province of central Canada: lies mostly on the Canadian Shield and contains the fertile plain of the lower Great Lakes and the St Lawrence River, one of the world's leading industrial areas; the second largest and the most populous province. Capital: Toronto. Pop: 12 392 721. Area: 891 198 sq km Abbreviation: Ont., ON.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ONTARIO


barrio
ˈbærɪəʊ
comprimario
ˌkɒmpriːˈmɑːrɪəʊ
DiCaprio
dɪˈkæprɪəʊ
etaerio
ɛˈtɪərɪəʊ
oratorio
ˌɒrəˈtɔːrɪəʊ
Oreo
ˈɔːrɪəʊ
pre-embryo
priːˈɛmbrɪəʊ
proembryo
prəʊˈɛmbrɪəʊ
Rosario
rəʊˈsɑːrɪəʊ
sicario
sɪˈkɛərɪəʊ
stereo
ˈstɛrɪəʊ
tenebrio
tɪˈnebrɪəʊ
vireo
ˈvɪrɪəʊ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ONTARIO

Onondaga
Onondagan
onrush
onrushing
ONS
onset
onsetter
onsetting
onshore
onshoring
onside
onslaught
onstage
onstream
Ont.
Ontarian
Ontarioan

WORDS THAT END LIKE ONTARIO

Berio
brio
cabrio
cheerio
con brio
curio
Dario
Florio
histrio
impresario
Krio
Lake Ontario
Lothario
motu proprio
nightmare scenario
piano trio
power trio
scenario
trio
vibrio

Synonyms and antonyms of Ontario in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Ontario» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ONTARIO

Find out the translation of Ontario to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Ontario from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Ontario» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

安大略省
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Ontario
570 millions of speakers

English

Ontario
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ओंटारियो
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أونتاريو
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Онтарио
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Ontario
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অন্টারিও
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Ontario
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ontario
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ontario
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

オンタリオ州
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

온타리오
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ontario
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Ontario
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒன்டாரியோ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऑन्टारियो
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ontario
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Ontario
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Ontario
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Онтаріо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Ontario
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Οντάριο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Ontario
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Ontario
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Ontario
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Ontario

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ONTARIO»

The term «Ontario» is very widely used and occupies the 5.870 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ONTARIO» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Ontario» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Ontario» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Ontario

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10 QUOTES WITH «ONTARIO»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Ontario.
1
Dan Aykroyd
My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.
2
Linwood Barclay
I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.'
3
Paul Bloom
Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity.
4
Cathy Marie Buchanan
Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.
5
Paul Cellucci
We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.
6
Rick Danko
I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.
7
Rick Danko
When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!
8
Tommy Douglas
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
9
Kevin Durand
I started off as a rapper from Thunder Bay, Ontario, believe it or not. There was a little group of 10 or 12 of us that would get together and copy each other's cassettes. So I was a rapper first, and it was that music that got me into this great entertainment world and got me out of Thunder Bay.
10
Atom Egoyan
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ONTARIO»

Discover the use of Ontario in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Ontario and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ontario
First Nations, explorers, Tourism, idustry all about Ontario.
Harry Beckett, 2003
2
The Irish in Ontario: A Study in Rural History
Donald Harman Akenson is professor of history at Queen's University and the author of numerous books on Irish history, includingIf the Irish Ran the Worldand the acclaimedConor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien.
Donald Harman Akenson, 1999
3
The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario
Later, when the Five Nations Iroquois attacked various groups in southern Ontario in the mid-seventeenth century, the 0jibwa were the only Indians to defeat them, thereby disproving the myth of Iroquois invincibility.In the eighteenth ...
Peter S. Schmalz, 1991
4
Hidden Ontario: Secrets from Ontario’s Past
Terry Boyle unveils the eccentric and bizarre in these mini-histories of Ontario's towns and cities: the imposter who ran the Rockwood Asylum in Kingston; Ian Fleming's inspiration for James Bond; the Prince of Wales's undignified crossing ...
Terry Boyle, 2011
5
Haunted Ontario: Ghostly Inns, Hotels, and Other Eerie Places
Join Ontario ghosthunter Terry Boyle as he conjures up a treasury of spectral delights that include apparitions at the former Swastika Hotel in Muskoka, the woman in the window at Inn at the Falls in Bracebridge, and poltergeists galore in ...
Terry Boyle, 2013
6
A Bird-finding Guide to Ontario
From southern deciduous woodlands to Arctic coastline, this guide presents precise directions on where birds are found, emphasizing the most popular and productive localities, but also citing numerous little-known locales that will delight ...
Clive E. Goodwin, 1995
7
Looking for Old Ontario: Two Centuries of Landscape Change
This book, the result of thirty years of field work and archival research, is a reflection on and an interpretation of the ways in which the land and its inhabitants interrelate.
Thomas F. McIlwraith, 1997
8
Ontario's African-Canadian Heritage: Collected Writings by ...
This illustrated collection offers a wealth of data on slavery, abolition, the Underground Railroad, providing unique insights into the African-Canadian heritage in Ontario.
Fred Landon, Karolyn Smardz Frost, 2009
9
Two Worlds: The Protestant Culture of Nineteenth Century Ontario
In Two Worlds, Westfall examines the origin, character, and social significance of the powerful and distinctive Protestant culture that grew and flourished in Southern Ontario in the mid-Victorian period.
William Westfall, 1990
10
The Law Society of Upper Canada and Ontario's Lawyers, 1797-1997
It is also richly illustrated and footnoted throughout, in a way that enhances the work without distracting the reader.
Christopher Moore, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ONTARIO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Ontario is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Liz Sandals says talks with Ontario teachers will resume
Education Minister Liz Sandals says talks with Ontario's teachers' unions will resume following a meeting today between Premier Kathleen ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
2
Cocaine, other illicit drugs found in Ontario water, McGill study says
Limited quantities of certain drugs also remained in Ontario's drinking water, even after passing through a drinking water treatment plant, ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
3
Northern Ontario workers spend longer on disability: study
A new study has found that northern Ontario workers spend more time off the job because of workplace illnesses and injuries than do their ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
4
Take off, eh, you Uber: Ontario lobs $300m lawsuit at cab app biz
The class-action suit, filed on behalf of cabbies in the Ontario province, claims Uber's dial-a-ride service operates as a fleet of illegal cabs, ... «The Register, Jul 15»
5
Mississauga educator receives Ontario principal award
The award recognizes an Ontario principal or vice-principal for exceptional school and community leadership. “We are extremely proud of ... «Mississauga, Jul 15»
6
Don't play political games with Ontario retirees
In the absence of federal leadership, the Ontario government is taking the necessary steps to secure the financial future of Ontarians. «Guelph Mercury, Jul 15»
7
Chad Campbell two clear in Ontario after 63
Chad Campbell takes a two-stroke lead into the third round of the RBC Canadian Open after firing nine birdies in his stunning 63 on Friday. «SkySports, Jul 15»
8
Man escapes from Ontario jail disguised as cellmate, police allege
The Elgin Middlesex Detention Centre, in London, Ontario. Police in London, say they're looking for a 19-year-old man who escaped from jail ... «Hamilton Spectator, Jul 15»
9
New study to probe claims of unusually high cancer rate in Ontario
Some First Nations communities in Ontario and Manitoba have complained for years about what they call an unusually high rate of cancer ... «680 News, Jul 15»
10
Beneteau finishes 18th at Ontario junior golf
Odessa's Peter Beneteau shot a 73 on the final round to finish in a tie for 18th at the Ontario junior boys golf championship at Cobourg's ... «The Kingston Whig-Standard, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Ontario [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/ontario>. May 2024 ».
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