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toronto

/təˈɹɑ.noʊ/

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What does toronto mean?

proper noun

  1. The capital city of Ontario, Canada and the largest city in Canada.
  2. A lakeside suburb of Greater Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, in the local government area of the City of Lake Macquarie.
  3. An unincorporated community in the township of Lot 23, Grenville Parish, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
More meanings (8)

proper noun

  1. A village in County Durham, England.
  2. A former unincorporated community in Woodside Township, now a suburb of Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois.
  3. A ghost town in Helt Township, Vermillion County, Indiana.
  4. A small town in Clinton County, Iowa.
  5. A tiny city in Woodson County, Kansas, named after Toronto, Ontario.
  6. An unincorporated community in Camden County, Missouri, named after Toronto, Ontario.
  7. A city in Jefferson County, Ohio, named after Toronto, Ontario.
  8. A small town in Deuel County, South Dakota, named after Toronto, Ontario.

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IPA pronunciation

/təˈɹɑ.noʊ/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/təˈɹɑn.toʊ/
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Redruff really lived in the Don Valley north of Toronto, and many of my companions will remember him.
Ernest Thompson SetonWild Animals I Have KnownProject Gutenberg ebook #3031
The very same argument as we got from the University of Geneva and the University of Toronto!
Upton SinclairThe Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic InterpretationProject Gutenberg ebook #1558
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Thence we emerged on Lake Ontario, an inland sea; and by half-past six o’clock were at Toronto.
Charles DickensAmerican NotesProject Gutenberg ebook #675
Holmes asked to be allowed to go to Toronto that he might collect any evidence which he could find there in his favour.
H. B. (Henry Brodribb) IrvingA Book of Remarkable CriminalsProject Gutenberg ebook #446
He had been to college in Toronto, in Princeton, and away over in Edinburgh, in the old homeland where his father and mother were born.
Mary Esther Miller MacGregorThe Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of FormosaProject Gutenberg ebook #1759