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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
Synonyms:
Buckeye State; OH; Ohio
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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, children, children, help me to bear it!
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Oh! If that was it, I was quite ready to go.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Oh, no, there won’t be any escaping if they have anything to say about it.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
In the reaction of OH with methane, OH is also removed.
(Greenhouse Gas ‘Detergent’ Recycles Itself in Atmosphere, NASA)
Oh, that's the best explanation you can give, is it?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Oh well, we are all in this together in different ways.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Oh, no, returned the soldier; I have never seen him.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
OH, also called hydroxyl, doesn’t stay on its own for long, preferring to attack molecules or attach itself chemically to them.
(On Second Thought, the Moon's Water May Be Widespread and Immobile, NASA)
Oh! my dear mother, you must be wrong in permitting an engagement between a daughter so young, a man so little known, to be carried on in so doubtful, so mysterious a manner!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
