OH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does OH mean? 

• OH (noun)
  The noun OH has 1 sense:

1. a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

  Familiarity information: OH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Buckeye State; OH; Ohio

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "OH"):

Akron (a city in northeastern Ohio; the heart of the United States rubber industry)

Athens (a town in southeast Ohio)

Cleveland (the largest city in Ohio; located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie; a major Great Lakes port)

Cincinnati (a city in southern Ohio on the Ohio river)

capital of Ohio; Columbus (the state capital of Ohio; located in the center of the state; site of Ohio State University)

Dayton (a city in southwest Ohio; manufacturing center)

Mansfield (a town in north central Ohio)

Toledo (an industrial city in northwestern Ohio on Lake Erie)

Youngstown (a city in northeast Ohio)

Wabash; Wabash River (a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana)

Holonyms ("OH" is a part of...):

middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

 Context examples 

Oh, come in if you wish to.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh, it is no trouble; I dare say your own hands are almost numbed with cold.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh! no, that is clear enough.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Oh, I know you, but you can't make no rough- house with me.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Oh! My beloved sister, the sickening failing of your heart-felt expectations is, in prospect, more terrible to me than my own death.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I found my dear one, oh, so thin and pale and weak-looking.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Oh, just let some peas be strewn in the ante-chamber, answered the lion, and then you will soon see.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The researchers found that higher serum 25(OH)D levels in the first 12 months predicted reduced MS activity and a slower rate of MS progression.

(Vitamin D Levels Predict Multiple Sclerosis Progression, NIH)