Library / English Dictionary

OTTAWA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Canadian capital; capital of Canada; Ottawa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Ontario (a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A river in southeastern Canada that flows along the boundary between Quebec and Ontario to the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal

Synonyms:

Ottawa; Ottawa river; Outaouais

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

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

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

A member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Ottawa" is a kind of...):

Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)

Credits