Ontario

[on-tair-ee-oh]

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noun

a province in southern Canada, bordering on the Great Lakes. 412,582 square miles (1,068,585 square kilometers). Toronto.
Lake Ontario, a lake between the northeastern United States and southern Canada, between New York and Ontario province: the smallest of the Great Lakes. 193 miles (310 kilometers) long; 7,540 square miles (19,530 square kilometers).
a city in southwestern California, east of Los Angeles.

Ontario

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noun

Abbreviation: Ont..�� ON.��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 (2004 est). Area: 891 198 sq km (344 092 sq miles)
a lake between the US and Canada, bordering on New York State and Ontario province: the smallest of the Great Lakes; linked with Lake Erie by the Niagara River and Welland Canal; drained by the St Lawrence. Area: 19 684 sq km (7600 sq miles)

Ontario

Province in central Canada, bordered by Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north; Quebec to the east; the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Superior, and Minnesota to the south; and Manitoba to the west. Its capital and largest city is Toronto.

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Ontario is the most heavily industrialized, populous, and prosperous province in Canada.

The Canadian side of Niagara Falls is in southern Ontario.

Ottawa, Canada's capital, is in southeastern Ontario.

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Other Word Forms

Ontarian adjective
Ontaric adjective

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Savannah Knox, visiting from Southern Ontario, said she didn't mind paying because she is used to doing that back home in Canada.

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England's Matt Wallace ended the day at seven under par to be one of seven qualifiers in Ontario, along with Denmark's Thorbjorn Olesen.

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At the airport, the Queen was given a bouquet of flowers and she and the King were greeted by school groups from the provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

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Freighters, the restaurant where she works, is one of the first places people can grab a bite after crossing the US-Canada border between Sarnia, Ontario, and Port Huron, Michigan.

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The federal and provincial Conservative parties are legally different entities, though they belong to the same ideological tent, and Ford is leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party.

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Ontarian on tenterhooks

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