ONTARIO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ontario mean? 

• ONTARIO (noun)
  The noun ONTARIO has 2 senses:

1. the smallest of the Great Lakes

2. a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada

  Familiarity information: ONTARIO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONTARIO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The smallest of the Great Lakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Lake Ontario; Ontario

Instance hypernyms:

lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)

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

Great Lakes (a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Canadian province (Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "Ontario"):

Canadian capital; capital of Canada; Ottawa (the capital of Canada (located in southeastern Ontario across the Ottawa river from Quebec))

Hamilton (a port city in southeastern Ontario at the western end of Lake Ontario)

Kingston (a town in southeast Ontario on Lake Ontario near the head of the Saint Lawrence River)

Sault Sainte Marie (a town of southern Ontario opposite northern Michigan)

Sudbury (a city in south central Canada in Ontario; a major nickel mining center)

Thunder Bay (a port city in Ontario on Lake Superior)

Toronto (the provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada))

Canadian Falls; Horseshoe Falls (a part of Niagara Falls in Ontario)

James Bay (the southern extension of Hudson Bay in Canada between western Quebec and northeastern Ontario)

Lake Saint Clair; Lake St. Clair (a lake between Ontario and Michigan; connected with Lake Huron and Lake Erie)

Niagara; Niagara Falls (waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls)

Severn; Severn River (a river in Ontario that flows northeast into Hudson Bay)

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

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

 Context examples 

Previously, Cassini data measured Ontario Lacus, the only major lake in Titan's southern hemisphere.

(Cassini Reveals Surprises with Titan's Lakes, NASA)

Researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, examined 41 studies conducted from 1990 to 2016.

(Tiny Babies May Face Mental Health Problems Later, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

By simulating this effect in two lakes in Ontario, Canada, the study found an increased diversity of organic molecules – molecules containing carbon within their structure – entering the water in the matter shed by nearby plants and trees.

(Climate change could double greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater ecosystems, University of Cambridge)

Thanks to a rare orbital alignment between Europa and Io, an international team of researchers has identified and tracked a pair of lava waves as they coursed around Loki Patera, which is larger than Lake Ontario, and with a surface area of 8,300 square miles (21,500 square km).

(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)