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Toronto

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//təˈɹɒ.nəʊ//
  • United Kingdom//təˈɹɒn.təʊ//
  • United States//təˈɹɑ.noʊ//
  • United States//təˈɹɑn.toʊ//

The capital city of Ontario, Canada and largest city Canada.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The capital city of Ontario, Canada and largest city Canada.

    As Toronto slowly comes back to life after two years of repeated lockdowns and closures, the wreckage of the pandemic is surfacing like cigarette butts in melted snow drifts.

    A year earlier, the Canadian leader was seen at a Sikh event in Toronto where separatist flags and posters depicting an extremist Sikh leader killed in a 1984 Indian Army operation were displayed.

  2. 2

    A lakeside suburb of Greater Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, in the local government area of the City of Lake Macquarie.

  3. 3

    An unincorporated community in the township of Lot 23, Grenville Parish, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

  4. 4

    A village in County Durham, England.

  5. 5

    Numerous places in the United States: A former unincorporated community in Woodside Township, now a suburb of Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois.

  6. 6

    Numerous places in the United States: A ghost town in Helt Township, Vermillion County, Indiana.

  7. 7

    Numerous places in the United States: A small town in Clinton County, Iowa.

  8. 8

    Numerous places in the United States: A tiny city in Woodson County, Kansas, named after Toronto, Ontario.

  9. 9

    Numerous places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Camden County, Missouri, named after Toronto, Ontario.

  10. 10

    Numerous places in the United States: A city in Jefferson County, Ohio, named after Toronto, Ontario.

  11. 11

    Numerous places in the United States: A small town in Deuel County, South Dakota, named after Toronto, Ontario.

Etymology

From Mohawk tkaronto (“where trees stand in water”), originally referring to the strait between Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching. Compare karón꞉ta (“tree”) from Proto-North Iroquoian *-ɹõt-.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).